Summary
If you had picked up this book without understanding anything about Perl and looked at the script in Listing 21.3, chances are pretty good you might have had a hard time deciphering it—even if you already knew something about programming languages (Perl is funny that way). After 21 days deep into the language and its idiosyncrasies, reading the code in these examples should be easy—or at least less perplexing.
Today, we finished up the week and the book with the usual longer examples (one longer than the other). The two scripts we looked at in this lesson, the Stock Portfolio manager and the To Do list application, are both CGI scripts that process data from different sources (or multiple sources) and generate HTML as their output. The ...
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