Official Perl 5 Wiki

Perl 5 Wiki Resources

General

• Glossary
• What is Perl? The Swiss Army chainsaw of programming languages. The duct tape of the web. And much, much more.
• How to get Perl

CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network)

• CPAN is the huge and relentlessly-growing Perl module archive. This is one of Perl's greatest competitive advantages. Be sure to take full advantage of it.

News & Discussions

• Wiki News
• Perl 5 News Outlets Here's where to find the latest Perl 5 news.
• Perl 5 RSS News Feeds and Headlines (Now up and running!) See the latest headlines from major Perl 5 news sites.

Perl Culture

• Culture "There is more than one way to do it." (TIMTOWTDI)
• People Of Perl What makes and keeps Perl great.
• Perl Mongers Local meeting groups.
• PerlMonks Mutual programming-oriented Perl user support community.
• History Disturbing rumors of a time before Perl.
• Perl Events These stimulate many excellent Presentations and Papers.
• Advocacy Rule 1: Be civil. Rule 2: Collaborative peaceful co-existence (TIMTOWTDI also applies to languages, such as the family of Parrot-hosted languages, which includes Rakudo Perl 6).
• Lore
• Movies

Who Uses Perl?

• Applications
• Perl Businesses
• Companies using Perl
• Websites using Perl
• Usage Statistics

Perl for your career

• Perl Training
• Perl Jobs
• Companies using Perl

How to Find More Information

• Perl Training
• Books
• Recommended Online Tutorials
• Recommended Articles
• Blogs
• Conferences
• IRC Channel
• Mailing Lists
• Presentations and Papers
• Screencasts
• Websites
• Other Perl Wikis
• How to ask Perl questions

Introductory/General

• Documentation
• Using perldoc
• Tools[]
• Introduction to Perl
• Style Guides
• Mistakes to avoid
• Example Programs

Intermediate

• Testing
• Writing Cross-Platform Code
• Object Oriented Perl
• Best Practice
• Building and Deploying Perl Packages / Applications
• Building perl

Advanced

• Hacking On Perl Itself
• Embedding and Extending Perl
• Higher Order Perl
• Inside-Out Objects

About This Wiki

This is the Official Wiki For Perl 5. Fill this wiki with Perl 5 related content. Be Bold! If in doubt, try something out in the sandbox.

Please feel free to add or modify pages -- even this one -- as you see fit, but before you start editing away, please review the policies and guidelines.

Still feeling confused ? You might want to check out the help section.

What Goes On This Wiki?

This wiki exists to collect and make available to all the knowledge of the Perl community. An encyclopedia of Perl. The rule of thumb is if you're not sure, go ahead and post it. Here is a general, incomplete listing. For more ideas, see Suggested Topics below.

• Perl 5 Wikithon Notes from OSCON 2007

• General Perl information suitable for being linked to by other web sites. This keeps other sites from having to repeat the same information over and over again.

• Tribal Perl knowledge. Things you can't find in the docs. Things that certain groups of people only seem to know in their head. Why don't we call it PERL? Who are we talking about when we say Tom? What are the best CPAN modules? A good rule of thumb is this: If a person asks you a question and you can't think of a definitive place you'd send them for an answer, it deserves to be here.

• If you have a small wiki related to Perl that you think would do better here, feel free to move your content here. (Caveat: make sure you sort out your content licences.)

What Does Not Go On This Wiki?

The rule of thumb is if you're not sure, go ahead and post it. It can always be deleted later. But there are a few things which don't go here.

• Copies of documentation or other documents which already have fine, canonical homes. It is better to link to the external resource than to duplicate.

• Anything you, or someone else, wouldn't want aired in public. This is a public, revision-controlled web site for all to see and archive. Once its posted here it can't fully be deleted. Don't post others' personal contact information (phone numbers, IM names, children's names, date of birth, address, passwords, embarrassing stories) unless they have already done so publicly.

Wiki Caretaker Tasks

Do you have a few spare tuits to help us build this wiki? Your help would be much appreciated!
Here's a list of things that need to be done:

• Create some general means of communicating other than the IRC channel.
• For the time being, Elliot has created Wiki Discussion.
• Link to Orphaned pages.
• Clean up, correct, and expand Glossary entries.
• Write stubs or pages for the many incipient links (links which don't yet have an associated page).
• Tag pages.
• Tag pages with minimal content with "stub" so they can be found and worked on later.
• Expand stub pages.
• Help with the move of general Perl content from PerlNet. Throw a [[Category:P5wiki candidates]] at the bottom of any PerlNet page you'd like to see on this wiki.
• Make people happy by completing work in the Wish List page

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(For still more news, also see Perl 5 News Outlets and Perl 5 RSS News Feeds and Headlines.)