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Perl
Last modified: Friday, March 12, 2004  

Short for Practical Extraction and Report Language, Perl is a programming language developed by Larry Wall, especially designed for processing text. Because of its strong text processing abilities, Perl has become one of the most popular languages for writing CGI scripts. Perl is an interpretive language, which makes it easy to build and test simple programs.

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    Provides the five major sections of the Perl FAQ, compiled from the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup. There are links to general information as well as specific Perl programming information.

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    Perl/Tk FAQ
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    The University of Florida Perl archive
    University of Florida's collection of links to FAQs, newsgroups, related sites, and FTP archives for Perl.

    WebScripts
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    Yahoo!'s Perl page
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    Yahoo!'s Perl Web servers page
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    Short PERL Tutorial
    Succinct PERL tutorial that echoes the classic "Hello World" format of used in teaching C programming.

    The Perl language Home Page
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    Thinking In Perl
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