Perl

Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language, or Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister), a powerful, general-purpose scripting language that is, among a lot of other things, well-suited for CGI applications. Originates from the Unix platform, but is now available for almost any conceivable other platform too.

The latest released version is Perl 5.8.0.

Links

• [CPAN] – Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, your primary source for everything Perl-related.
• [Perl Mongers] – Home of the Perl advocacy people.
• [Perl.com] – O'Reilly's Perl homepage. (O'Reilly is the publisher of the Camel Book, officially known as [Programming Perl], a must-have-read for any Perl programmer.)
• [ActiveState] – Maintaining and distributing the Windows port of Perl.
• [Perl 6] – The website for the next version of Perl (Perl6).
• [Parrot] – Parrot will be the virtual machine for Perl6, but it is in fact language agnostic. Parrot already runs a few languages including BASIC, Cola (which as I understand it, is a slight variant on C), Jako, and Perl6 (well it runs as much of Perl6 as what has been thought up of it).

Related Topics

• Server Query in Perl – How to query game servers in Perl.
• Tarquin/Perl – Tarquin's ramblings on Perl.