"9.10 Interesting and Important Libraries"


A packet aliasing library for masquerading and network address translation

The lex runtime library

A library for the MallocDebug utility (/Developer/ Applications)

The new curses screen library, a set of functions for controlling a terminal's display screen

Packet capture library

An open source toolkit implementing Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Versions 2 and 3, Transport Layer Security (TLS) Version 1, and a full-strength, general-purpose cryptography library

The Tcl runtime library

The yacc runtime library

A general-purpose data-compression library (Zlib)

Compression of files

System V poll(2) emulation library

Character set conversion library

Character set determination library

Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)

Command-line tool for file transfer

Print plug-in, Ghostscript and CUPS driver

Free software emulation of System V curses

Interface library for the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)

Panel stack extension for curses

XML parsing library, Version 2

Interpreted object-oriented scripting language

Tcl scripting language

TCP wrappers; monitors and filters incoming requests for TCP-based services

TrueType font rendering library, Version 2


"
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use MacPerl qw(:all);

$answer = MacPerl::Ask("Tell me how good you thought my poem was.");
if ($answer =~
    /counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor/i) {
  $die_in_the_vacuum_of_space = 1;
}
"