Perl resources

Perl is an extremely powerful, free and popular programming language that runs on many different platforms. It’s most notable features are regular expresions (used for pattern matching) and hashes (arrays indexed by text instead of just numbers).

• Learning Perl
  • http://learn.perl.org/
  • Unofficial Perl Beginners Site http://perl-begin.berlios.de/
  • http://perl-begin.berlios.de/cgi-bin/chiq_chaq/chiq.pl?What_The_Books_Dont_Teach_You
  • Novice Perl Errors article http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/04/raceinfo.html?wwwrrr_20000502.txt
  • Web Basics with LWP article http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/20/perlandlwp.html
  • Free Programming Resources http://freeprogrammingresources.com/freeperl.html

• Larry Wall Slashdot Interview http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/06/1343222 He’s the creator of Perl.
• Randal Schwartz’ Web Techniques Perl columns http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/

• Perl Mongers http://www.perl.org/
• Perl.com http://www.perl.com/
• $ENV{’REMOTE_USER’} gets Remote User variable
• Perl article introducing safer replacements for Matt Wright scripts http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/23/cgi.html
• NMS (New Matt Scripts?) http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/ source for the scripts referred to above

This article was originally posted on the UCLA Programmers Wiki.