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add perl as a supported language
As we have perl-core (the set of standard Perl modules) and perl-App-cpanminus (a modern package manager) installed, our Perl setup is usable for most tasks. We need some documentation for it.
- Versioning: Explain why we offer Perl 5.16 despite it being already end-of-life (but gets backported updates by Red Hat)
- Refer to perlbrew as an alternative to install your completely own (and thus unsupported) Perl
- Explain
cpanmto install Perl modules from CPAN - If user-installed modules are used, a single line has to be added to the
.bashrc- but we should probably do this centrally on our side - Apart from the docs we can write a guide or two on how to create a basic application with the Catalyst or Mojolicious framework
it is already documented but could be extended: https://manual.uberspace.de/lang-perl/