Perl

I've been using Perl since the late 90's and in a number of different jobs during that time. Its the glue language thats always available and generally portable and reusable. My X Apperator project uses Perl exclusively as does the Wiki system your viewing right now which I've tailored for my purposes.

You won't find any Perl tutorials here coz there are billions of them on the web already, but you may just find a few links or resources whether your and old gun or just new to the language.

If you're learning Perl right now or are after a little inspiration and a new module to investigate check out my Module Watch page. I've also been keeping some links on Perl And Unicode which should be useful.

For a bunch of useful and free Perl tutorials including some more advanced topics check out:

• Perl Design Patterns
• http://tutorials.freeskills.com/free-perl-tutorials.html
• Object Oriented Perl

If you're considering using XML in Perl, then before you make any decisions about what modules and tools to use you must read the perl-xml FAQ...

• http://perl-xml.sourceforge.net/faq/

If your expecting to write tests for your script (of course you are right?) then definately check out the Test::Tutorial at cpan...

• http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.8/lib/Test/Tutorial.pod

As far as the Perl community goes you should check out the following...

• http://wellington.pm.org/
• http://perl.net.au/
• http://perlmonks.org/

Writing your own Perl module:

• http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html
• http://mathforum.org/~ken/perl_modules.html
• http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.30/

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