Basic HTML version of Foils prepared April 16,1996

Foil 3 Some Key Advances in Perl5 -- I

From Perl5 and Advanced Perl4 Features Computational Science for Information Age Course CPS616 Material -- April 16,1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Arbitrary multidimensional Arrays for list [] and Hash {} sectors
Modules allow convenient library structure
Functional but slightly adhoc object oriented class structure hacked onto existing Perl4
C/C++ can be called from Perl and vice versa
tie/untie allow more general database interfaces
AUTOLOAD allows arbitrary action for undefined subroutines
subroutines now can be predeclared before implementation

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