Mike Stok’s Perl Stuff

Perl:

[go to the Programming Republic of Perl]

Perl is an interpreted scripting language by Larry Wall. Many of the definitive books on perl are published by O’Reilly & Associates.

Despite persistent rumours to the contrary, Perl isn’t just a language for writing web applications and CGI scripts with — it was a widely used language for all kinds of tasks long before the realisation of the current “web”. It’s also a myth that it’s difficult to write solid and maintainable code in Perl.

Social:

There were quite a few people who are active in the Perl arena who I had the good fortune to meet a few times while I was in the Boston MA area.

brian d foy has set up the Perl Mongers, a group dedicated to forming Perl Users’ Groups. They have several groups around the US, and are a focus for social activities amongst other things…

The Perl Mongers in Boston, New York, Austin and Tronto have been fun people to hang out with.

Links:

Here are some pointers which might be of use to you, the list is by no means intended to be a complete reference to perl on the web:

The Perl Review

A periodical produced electronically by brian d foy.

Perl Monks

A good place to pick up tid-bits useful and otherwise.

www.perl.com

The perl.com site which contains far more than everything you ever wanted to know about perl (…and more…).

The Perl Journal

A publication dedicated to perl and things perlish.

I wrote an atricle for Issue 4 which used OO perl to solve the 8 queens problem.