The Perl Programming Language

It is not our intention to provide a comprehensive overview of Perl resources. This document contains local services, and references to other sites that may have further information.

Documentation

FAQ Frequently Asked Question
Meta-FAQ Where to get the FAQ and the latest Perl

We also have an HTML version of the manual which comes with Perl5. If you find it useful do get a local copy yourself; it's faster and less of a waste of bandwidth.

Learning Perl (the Llama Book) An introduction
Programming Perl (the Camel Book) The Complete Perl 4 Reference
Software Engineering with Perl

comp.lang.perl on USENET (also archived)
Perl5 Porters Mailing List

Other Sites

University of Florida's Perl Archive (with FTP site)
MetroNet Perl Archive (with search)
Neil Bowers' Perl Page
Imperial College London Perl Archive, which also has a mirror of University of Florida's Perl Archive

Perl Software for the Web

At NEXOR

This perl/contrib WWW area contains some general purpose Perl 5 modules for the WWW. They aren't necessarily vetted by me, and we assume no responsibility for this software. Send questions about the modules to their authors.

URL.pm A Perl 5 module for World-Wide Web URL's.
CGI/ Tim Bunce's Various CGI Modules

Elsewhere

plexus An HTTP server in Perl
libwww-perl A WWW client library distribution for Perl 4

Martijn Koster