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O'Reilly also provides "Programming Republic of Perl" logos for non-commercial sites and "Powered by Perl" buttons for any site that uses Perl. [30] The Perl Foundation owns an alternative symbol, an onion, which it licenses to its subsidiaries, Perl Mongers, PerlMonks, Perl.org, and others. [31] The symbol is a visual pun on pearl onion. [32]
Matt's Script Archive is a collection of CGI scripts written in the Perl programming language. Started in 1995 by Matt Wright (at the time a high school student in Fort Collins, Colorado), the archive contains about a dozen free scripts, designed to be easily added to a site and configured. [1] One of the scripts, FormMail, is claimed to be the ...
This includes Perl itself, nearly all publicly released modules, many scripts, most design documents, many articles on Perl.com and other Perl-related web sites, and the Parrot virtual machine. Pod is rarely read in the raw, although it is designed to be readable without the assistance of a formatting tool.
Perl language structure. The structure of the Perl programming language encompasses both the syntactical rules of the language and the general ways in which programs are organized. Perl's design philosophy is expressed in the commonly cited motto "there's more than one way to do it".
Perl is an open-source programming language whose first version, 1.0, was released in 1987. The following table contains the Perl 5 version history, showing its release versions. Not all versions are covered yet. Note that additional minor release versions may not be shown in this chart, unless they include notable changes or are the latest ...
ActivePerl is a distribution of Perl from ActiveState (formerly part of Sophos) for Windows, macOS, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. A few main editions are available, including: Community (free, for development use only), and several paid tiers up to Enterprise that includes support for OEM licensing. It includes a version of the Perl package ...
Free on-line books about Perl. Practical Perl Programming – book by A.D. Marshall, Cardiff University; Modern Perl – free on-line book by chromatic; Picking up Perl – free on-line book by Bradley M. Kuhn and Neil Smyth; Impatient Perl – for readers with previous programming experience. Learn Perl in about a week.
Perl::Critic – A tool to help enforce common Perl best practices. Most best practices are based on Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices book. PerlTidy – Program that acts as a syntax checker and tester/enforcer for coding practices in Perl. Padre – An IDE for Perl that also provides static code analysis to check for common beginner errors.