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Foil 3 Some Key Advances in Perl5 -- I

From Perl5 and Advanced Perl4 Features Computational Science for Information Age Course CPS616 -- Sept 20 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox,Nancy McCracken,Tom Scavo
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
Now subroutines can be predeclared before implementation

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