Perl

Perl was created by Larry Wall.

Some Perl script samples.
Don't expect many high-grade Perl scripts, yet; most were Rexx ports and I'm told it shows.
I may still need to unlearn a lot.

I have added some links to Perl related sites and to binary distributions for the "Wintel" platform.

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Some Perl links

Perl

• Perl.com
  O'Reilly's official Perl site
• CPAN.org
  Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
  A good place to start your search for binary distributions and modules
• Perl.org
  Perl Mongers
• The Perl Journal archives.
• The Perl Review is trying to go to print.
  Download the latest issue here.
  Subscribe here.
• Perl Magazines and E-zines at Google's directory
• Randal L. Schwartz's home page

Perl Documentation & Tutorials

• perldoc.perl.org
• www.perl.com/pub/q/documentation
• learn.perl.org
• Tizag.zom Tutorials' Perl tutorial
• CGI Programming 101
• Oreilly's beginner's introduction to Perl
• The CGI Resource Index's Perl documentation page
• David J. Ritchie's Pearls of Perl

Perl Forums

• The Perl Monks

Perl Beginners Mailing Lists

• beginners@perl.org
• beginners-cgi@perl.org
• daily-tips@perl.org

Perl Development Tools & Tips

• The Open Perl IDE for Windows
• The PerlEdit IDE
• Late Night Software's Affrus Perl IDE for Mac OS X
• On Consultrix' site, an article can be found on Perl Beautyfier.
  The article contains a link to some of the most recent versions.
• On the same site, from the same author: Shell Quoting Guidelines
• Convert Perl scripts to executables with Perl2Exe

Code Samples

• Google Code Search
  use lang:perl to restrict searches to Perl code only
• my own Perl samples

Win32

• Download ActivePerl by ActiveState.com
• Win32 modules at CPAN
• More Win32 modules at ActiveState.com
• Dada's Perl lab

OS/2

• OS/2 binaries (may be used for DOS and Windows 3.1 too)
• OS/2 modules at CPAN
• More OS/2 modules at CPAN

MS-DOS

• MS-DOS binaries
• These OS/2 binaries can be used for DOS and Windows 3.1 too

Books

Click here for some books on Perl.