Perl

Introduction

 * Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language.
 * It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors.
 * Perl is Open Source software, licensed under its Artistic License, or the GNU General Public License (GPL).
 * Perl was created by Larry Wall.
 * Perl 1.0 was released to usenet's alt.comp.sources in 1987
 * Perl takes the best features from other languages, such as C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC, among others.
 * Perls database integration interface (DBI) supports third-party databases including Oracle, Sybase, Postgres, MySQL and others.
 * Perl works with HTML, XML, and other mark-up languages.
 * Perl supports Unicode.
 * Perl is Y2K compliant.
 * Perl supports both procedural and object-oriented programming.
 * Perl interfaces with external C/C++ libraries through XS or SWIG.

Links

 * Perl official website
 * Donwload
 * Perl Documentation (Manual, FAQs, mailing list archives)
 * CPAN (The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network)

Installation
Donwload

CPAN
The CPAN (The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) module automates or at least simplifies the make and install of perl modules and extensions. It includes some primitive searching capabilities and knows how to use Net::FTP or LWP or some external download clients to fetch the distributions from the net.