tell me more about perl

[Ian Lochray]

I have seen so many postings about the joys of perl that I have decided it's time to take a look. Where can I download perl from and is there any good online documentation to read?
Also, is it available on Tru64, AIX and Windows 2000?

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

To answer your last question:
yes, yes, and yes.

The starting point is www.perl.org/CPAN.

If you want perl for Windows XXXX then www.activeperl.com has a freely available version.

I strongly suggest that you purchase a number of the O'reilly Perl books: 'Learning Perl', 'Programming Perl', 'Advanced Perl Programming' and 'Perl Cookbook' are pretty much "musthaves".

[John Poff]

Hi,

Perl is a fantastic scripting language that has been ported to all the systems you mentioned and many more. Probably the best place to start is http://www.perl.com to download it, get documentation, etc. I suggest buying the great O'Reilly Perl books to get you started. Start with "Learning Perl". As you get into it and have questions, this forum is a great place to ask questions as there are some Perl wizards haunting this place.

Have fun!

JP

[harry d brown jr]

Yes, perl is available for all unix os's and windoze.


Also,

http://www.perlmonks.com/
http://www.perlarchive.com/index.shtml
http://www.4images.com/ntperl/

and many many more


live free or die
harry

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Of course I cannot shut up here :)

Perl rocks!

For HP-UX, you can get my ports on https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn

I leared perl by using a2p and s2p to convert my awk and sed scripts to perl and looked how /they/ did it. After I saw it's power, I bought "learning perl" from O'Reilly. After finishing that I bough "Programming Perl" from O'Reilly. Now I'm the Configure Pumpkin for perl5 and the current maintainer of README.hpux and hints/hpux.sh

How things can go ... :)

[S.K. Chan]

I'm starting to learn Perl (using one of those Teach Yourself book) and for WIN you can download activestate Perl from ..
http://www.activestate.com/
Never forget to learn how does the Perl the debugger works.
$ perl -d
after the first few weeks you started. I find it VALUABLE !

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

About options, never forget about warnings:

perl-5.005_03 and older:

#!/opt/perl/bin/perl -w

use strict;


perl-5.6.0 and newer:

#!/opt/perl/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;


and for all, if you still don't understand the warnings, extend the messages:

use diagnostics;

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

http://learn.perl.org/ not to forget. Nice starting point