Links

www.cpan.org - Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

www.activeperl.com - A very easy to use and install Windows Perl distribution.

www.perl.org - Perl Mongers - The Perl advocacy people; Perl news, distributions, etc.

slashdot.org - Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters.

Larry Wall On Perl, Religion, and... - A very good interview with Larry Wall, some quotes: Perl started out as just a text processing language--a better awk and sed--but it very rapidly spread to the ecological niche of system administration. On Unix, at least, a lot of system administration is text processing. With version 3, however, Perl very intentionally escaped the text-processing-only niche by adding the capability to process binary data. Perl 4 UNintentionally spread from the sysadmin niche into the CGI/Web niche. Perl 5 accellerated that trend by intentionally occupying the extensible-glue-language niche, which had the unforeseen (by me) but predictable result of enabling Web sites to hook all their backend databases to the various textual Internet protocols.