Perl.org
From Wikiversity
Perl.org is perhaps the best starting point for learning about Perl. It calls itself The Perl Directory.
[edit] What's there?
Perl.org answers the question, What is Perl?:
- Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language. It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors and is widely used to program web applications of all needs. See learn.perl.org
[edit] The Perl Directory
- About Perl – You can learn about Perl's history, success stories, and where to get downloads
- CPAN – the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network and "source for all things Perl" is the main repository for Perl modules, scripts, binaries, ports, source code, documentation and a host of other goods.
- Perl Core Development – Links to dev.perl.org sites about Perl 5, Perl 6, Parrot, Pugs, and others new developments, bug reporting and fixing and so forth.
- Application Programming – Links to CPAN's exhaustive module list, dbi.perl.org for database programming and to perl.apache.org, where an embedded perl interpreter called mod_perl is provided for the Apache web server.
- Events and Conferences – YAPC.org (Yet Another Perl Conference), The O'Rielly Perl Conference, local meetings, Summer of Code, etc. Perl people like to congregate.
- Online Documentation – Links to the all-important perl manual pages at perldoc.perl.org. Also to FAQs, mailing list archives and other documentation.
- Books and Articles – Links to the Perl Review, Perl.com, PerlCast, reviews, library and where to find the famous "Camel Book", "Llama book" and others.
- The Perl Community – Links to Perl Mongers, Perl Monks, Mailing lists, Planet Perl, use Perl and the rest of the big and friendly Perl community.
- The Perl Foundation – The umbrella organization for various Perl projects (as the Wikimedia Foundation is to Wikiversity)
