Perl Perl is an interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal). It combines (in the author's opinion, anyway) some of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh, so people familiar with those languages should have little difficulty with it. Perl has following extensions: Perl/Tk, NetCDFPerl, PerlDL.

Current Version:   5.6.0 License Type:   Artistic & GPL

Home Site: http://www.perl.com/ Source Code Availability:   Yes Available Binary Packages: Debian Package:   Yes, http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages RedHat RPM Package:   Yes, ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/ (perl-*) Other Packages:   Yes Targeted Platforms: UNIX, VMS, OS/2, QNX, LynxOS, AmigaOS, and Plan 9. Software/Hardware Requirements:

Other Links: http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Programming_Languages/Perl/ http://www.oasis.leo.org/ (Perl OASIS ... lots of Perl information and programs) Mailing Lists/USENET News Groups: Newsgroups info at http://www.perl.com/perl/info/newsgroups.html Mailing List info at http://www.perl.com/perl/info/mailing-lists.html User Comments: Linux Journal, No.35, March, 1997. See A Screen Shot? (Not Yet)

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