What is Perl, and where can I get a ton of information about it?
Perl is a scripting language widely used for system administration and programming on the World Wide Web. It originated in the UNIX community and has a strong UNIX slant, but is still very useful for Win32 platforms. perl (small ‘p’) is the program used to interpret the Perl language. To get more information about Perl, check out these WWW URLs: • http://www.perl.com/perl (The perl home page) • http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Programming_Languages/Perl/ (The Yahoo Perl page) There are several good books about Perl; consult your local technical bookstore. Two in particular to consider are _Programming_Perl_, 2nd Edition, by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and Randal L. Schwartz (O’Reilly & Associates, 1996) and _Learning_Perl_, by Randal L. Schwartz (O’Reilly & Associates, 1993). These are referred to by Perl enthusiasts as “the Camel book” and “the Llama book”, respectively. The nicknames come from the pictures on the front covers. If you are new to Perl, and there are any ter
