Perl

Perl, also Practical Extraction and Report Language (a backronym, see below), is an interpreted procedural programming language designed by Larry Wall. Perl borrows features from C, shell scripting (sh), awk, sed, and (to a lesser extent) many other programming languages.

External links

• Perl.org – The Perl Directory
• Perl.com – Perl on O'Reilly Network
• Perldoc at Perl.org – online Perl documentation

User groups

• Perl Mongers – local user groups in cities worldwide
• PerlMonks – an active and popular online user group and discussion forum
• use Perl; – Perl news and community discussion

Distributions

• CPAN – Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, Perl source distribution
• ActiveState ActivePerl – Perl for Microsoft Windows platforms
• IndigoPerl – another distribution of Perl for Microsoft Windows
• Cygwin also distributes Perl on Windows

Development

• Perl 5 development
• Perl 6 development
• Parrot virtual machine
• Project Ponie – Perl 5 running on top of Parrot
• Pugs – Perl 6 running on top of Haskell

History

• First reference to "Perl" on Usenet
• The origin of Perl – "Stability. Speed. Simplicity. perl1 is here."
• The Perl Timeline

Miscellaneous

• Perl related websites in the Open Directory Project
• The Perl Review - print magazine about Perl
• The Perl Journal online only magazine about Perl
• Perl Book reviews
• Perlcast - Perl Podcast
• Ten Perl Myths - O'Reilly
• Perl fortunes collected from Larry Wall message identifiers