The digital revolution did not begin with the teenage millionaires of Silicon Valley, claims Howard Rheingold, but with such early intellectual giants as Charles Babbage, George Boole and John von Neumann. In a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls th…
Perl programs can run on Mac, Windows and Unix platforms. This text demonstrates how it can be integrated alongside existing programs on these platforms and many integration issues. It provides techniques for text handling, text files, networking and databases.
In a lab at the Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s, Douglas Engelbart, along with a small team of researchers, developed the cornerstones of personal computing as we know it: the mouse, the windowed user interface, hypertext, and networking. Now, all these technologies are…
