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:dromedary_camel: List of resources about Perl

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List of resources about Perl :dromedary_camel:

Perl 5 raptor

Perl 5 raptor from kraih, licence CC-BY-SA 4.0

:clipboard: Summary

Derived from LinuxFR french article Pour tout savoir du Perl post-moderne.

As a reminder, Perl is a general-purpose programming language created in 1987 by Larry Wall.

"Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers" (dixit perldelta)

Perl is distributed under a dual licence : Artistic Licence and GPL v1+. Most of CPAN modules follow the same rule.

:construction_worker: Perl core development

:necktie: Official

:hammer_and_pick: Distributions, modules and installers

:dromedary_camel: General

:fuelpump: Around the CPAN

  • :ocean: CPAN Deps - List dependencies for a CPAN module (github)
  • :cyclone: CPAN Deps Graph - Visually (graph) list dependencies for a CPAN module (github)
  • :new: CPAN Doc - Documentation of some important modules
  • :heavy_check_mark: CPAN Testers - Build and test reports of CPAN modules
  • :scroll: BackPAN - The entire history of CPAN
  • :speech_balloon: PrePAN - Discuss modules before CPAN upload
  • :earth_africa: CPAN Map - Namespaces map of CPAN modules
  • :ballot_box_with_check: CPAN Cover - Test coverage of CPAN modules
  • :white_check_mark: CPAN TS - Kwalitee metrics
  • :mortar_board: CPAN IO - CPAN authors rankings according to their activity
  • :octocat: CPAN PRC - CPAN Pull Request Challenge
  • :floppy_disk: CPAN Mirrors - The CPAN mirrors around the world
  • :cloud: StratoPAN - Private CPAN repositories in the cloud
  • :underage: CPAN Audit - Audit CPAN modules for security vulnerabilities
  • :mag_right: CPANMeta - Browse CPAN metadata (github)
  • :bowtie: PAUSE - Perl Authors Upload Server (github)
  • :minidisc: CPAN Meta DB - (Yet another) CPAN metadata database (github)
  • :flashlight: grep::cpan - Grep the CPAN
  • :eyeglasses: CPAN::Groonga - Yet another CPAN grep service
  • :vibration_mode: PerlModules.net - Track changes in CPAN modules (changelog, RSS...)
  • :rocket: CPAN Rocks - CPAN metrics
  • :clipboard: CPAN Weekly - Newsletter about CPAN modules
  • :dart: CPAN Dashboards - CI dashboards for CPAN
  • :bookmark_tabs: CPAN Glossary - CPAN Glossary (see also Perl Glossary)

:beers: Social

Community

(See also Perl Mongers)

Newsfeeds

Blogging

Conferences

:book: Official documentation

Perl regex

:us: Tutorials

:fr: Tutorials in French

:es: Tutorials and related resources in Spanish

:vibration_mode: Interactive tutorials

  • :pizza:Perltuts - Learn modern Perl any time and from everywhere :purple_heart:
  • :fries: Learn Perl - Free interactive Perl tutorial :blue_heart:
  • :chocolate_bar: TryPerl - TryRuby clone for Perl :heart: (github)

:school: Tutorials meta-site

:trollface: Perl folklore

  • :bomb: "Perl" vs "perl" - Perl is the language, perl is the interpreter, PERL is how you catch newbies :baby:
  • :neckbeard: JAPH - Just Another Perl Hacker
  • :stars: PerlSecret - Secret operators and their nice nicknames
  • :heavy_plus_sign: $A++ - More than three hundred ways to increment $A, by the Paris Perl Mongers

  • :heavy_dollar_sign: Magic variables - Why some hate or love Perl (among other reasons)
  • :100: TIMTOWTDI - There's more than one way to do it
  • :recycle: Only perl can parse Perl or PPI
  • :notes: Perl poetry, including for instance Larry Wall's Black Perl
  • :golf: Perl Golf - Code Golf
  • :golf: Anarchy Golf - Code golf (not dedicated to Perl)
  • :weary: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris - The three chief virtues of a programmer
  • :sunglasses: DWIM - Do What I Mean principle (not this DWIM)
  • :grin: State of the onion
  • :trollface: Acme modules - Purely entertainment modules
  • :baby_chick: Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible :chicken:
  • :construction_worker: Get the job done :thumbsup:
  • :smiling_imp: Obfuscated Perl Contest - OPC 0, OPC 1, ~~OPC 2~~, OPC 3, OPC 4 and OPC 5
  • :notes: Perl Poetry Contest - PPC 1, PPC 2
  • :jp: Perl Haiku Contest
  • :walking: NeoCPANisms - Sit well and (try to) release new dists each month :smirk_cat:
  • :trophy: Larry Wall Awards - Annual award to the best contribution assigned during the TPC (old editions)

  • :poop: PHP was sometimes referred as People Hate Perl :grin:
  • :poop: Write Only Language - Relatively common :grin:
  • :baby_bottle: Baby Perl - Programming with a reduced set of builtins and idioms :baby:
  • :sunglasses: Perl idioms - Perl offers powerful idiomatic expressions (see fluent Perl or this node)
  • :smirk: Principle of least astonishment - Apply to experienced programmers :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
  • :ocean: The CPAN river - Metaphor about CPAN dependencies
  • :jack_o_lantern: The keeper of the pumpkin - The Perl maintainer (currently Sawyer X)
  • :heartpulse: Blead - Blead is the default development branch for Perl
  • :paperclip: Perl is often considered as being the duct tape of the Internet

  • :dromedary_camel: Larry Wall Homepage - Prepare your eyes
  • :gem: Pearl of great price - The biblical reference that inspired Larry Wall to name Perl
  • :cookie: Perl fortunes - Collection of Perl related quotes to be used as a fortune database

:jack_o_lantern: Perl Ecosystem

  • :fuelpump: CPAN - It is commonly accepted that the Perl killer app is CPAN ("CPAN is the language, Perl is just the syntax" - Audrey Tang)
  • :pill: MetaCPAN - Search the CPAN (twitter)

News and forums engines

CMS

Blogging

Mailing lists engines

  • :mailbox: Sympa - Mailing lists engine
  • :mailbox_with_mail: Minimalist - Mailing lists engine
  • :mailbox_closed: Dada Mail - Mailing lists engine
  • :mailbox_with_no_mail: Majordomo - Mailing lists engine (github)

Email filtering

  • :hocho: SpamAssassin - Email spam filtering
  • :email: Amavis - Email filter interface
  • :mailbox_with_mail: POP file - Email filtering
  • :no_entry: ASSP - Anti Spam
  • :open_hands: PostGrey - Postfix policy server implementing greylisting (github)

Communication

Monitoring

  • :chart_with_upwards_trend: Munin - Supervision software (like Nagios and Shinken)
  • :chart_with_downwards_trend: Monitorix - Lightweight system monitoring tool
  • :bar_chart: MRTG - Monitoring traffic load on network links (github)
  • :chart_with_downwards_trend: Webmin - Web interface to administer Unix like machines
  • :mag: Open Smart - Network and application monitoring
  • :chart_with_downwards_trend: Loggerithim - Monitoring and remote management package
  • :bar_chart: OPS View - Network and application monitoring
  • :hourglass_flowing_sand: Net Disco - Network management tool
  • :smoking: SmokePing - Monitor network latency (github)
  • :vhs: Stormons - Monitoring and mapping SAN storage devices.
  • :chart_with_upwards_trend: Proclet - Minimalist supervisor
  • :battery: Rainbarf - Fancy resource usage charts
  • :watch: Thruk - Multi-backends web interface for monitoring (github)
  • :chart_with_upwards_trend: Mailgraph - Mail statistics graphs (github)

Logs analyzers

  • :chart_with_upwards_trend: AWStats - Webserver logs analyzer (github)
  • :octopus: Octopussy - Log analyzer (github)
  • :chart_with_upwards_trend: Squid Analyzer - Log analyzer (github)
  • :chart_with_downwards_trend: W3Perl - Log analyzer
  • :bar_chart: Yaala - Log analyzer
  • :chart_with_upwards_trend: Log Watch - Log analyzer
  • :mag: SEC - Log analyzer
  • :satellite: Cricket - Collect and print data series
  • :chart_with_downwards_trend: Torrus - Collect and print data series
  • :bar_chart: pgBadger - PostgreSQL log analyzer (github)

Job queues

  • :octopus: Minion - A high performance job queue
  • :construction_worker: Gearman - Job server
  • :suspension_railway: Qudo - Job queue manager
  • :mountain_railway: Resque - Job queue manager
  • :aerial_tramway: TheSchwartz - Job queue manager
  • :satellite: Helios - Distributed job processing and application framework

Tickets trackers

Wiki

E-Commerce

Backup tools

  • :floppy_disk: RSnapshot - Backup utility based on rsync
  • :minidisc: ABT - Another Backup tool
  • :cd: Backup PC - Backup tool

Games

Web application frameworks

  • :cloud: Mojolicious - Web framework created by Sebastian Riedel (CPAN profile)
  • :dizzy: Catalyst - Web framework
  • :dancer: Dancer - Minimalist Web framework created by Alexis Sukrieh (see Dancer 1 and Dancer 2)
  • :crocodile: Jifty - Web framework
  • :cloud: Cyclone 3 - Web application framework
  • :snake: Amon - Web application framework (github)
  • :sheep: Poet - Web application framework
  • :elephant: Gantry - Web application framework
  • :bird: Kossy - Simple web application framework
  • :panda_face: Squatting - Web microframework
  • :wolf: Tatsumaki - Non-blocking web framework based on Plack and AnyEvent
  • :grapes: Raisin - REST API micro framework
  • :whale2: Maypole - MVC web application framework
  • :dolphin: Angelos - Web application framework
  • :fish: Web::Simple - Simple web application framework
  • :ram: Ark - Lightweight Catalyst-ish web application framework
  • :tiger: Shenker - Web application framework
  • :ox: Noe - Web application framework
  • :leopard: Kamui - Web application framework based on Plack
  • :snail: Web Nano - Really minimalistic web framework.
  • :mouse2: RapidApp - Web toolkit and framework based on Catalyst (github)
  • :snowflake: Kelp - A web framework light (github)
  • :innocent: Marquee - Yet another Mojo based web framework
  • :pig: Piggly - A straight forward PSGI web framework
  • :bug: PEF::Front - A web framework
  • :robot: Web::Machine - A RESTful web framework modeled as a state machine
  • :fire: Combust - A web framework

PSGI adapters and web servers

  • :pig: Plack - PSGI toolkit and server adapter
  • :boar: HTTP::Server::Simple - Simple standalone HTTP daemon
  • :tiger: HTTP::Daemon - Simple http server class
  • :rabbit: HTTP::Tiny - Minimalist HTTP client
  • :dog: Continuity - Library to simplify web applications (including a web server)
  • :mouse: Starman - High-performance preforking PSGI server
  • :cat: Twiggy - AnyEvent HTTP server for PSGI
  • :bear: Starlet - Simple and high-performance PSGI server
  • :frog: Corona - Asynchronous PSGI server
  • :racehorse: Gazelle - Preforked Plack handler for performance freaks
  • :horse: Arriba - PSGI server with SPDY support
  • :hamster: Perlbal - HTTP load balancer
  • :ox: HTTP::Engine - Web server
  • :dog2: Feersum - PSGI engine based on EV/libev
  • :japanese_ogre: Server::Starter - Super Daemon to handle hot deployment of server programs
  • :mouse2: Starlight - PSGI/Plack HTTP server with pre-forks

Templating

Compiler and alternative interpreters

  • :wrench: Compiler Perlito - Perl to Java and Perl to JavaScript
  • :muscle: RPerl - Restricted Perl, an optimizing compiler (github)
  • :wrench: CPerl - Alternative Perl interpreter
  • :hammer: TinyPerl - Very compact Perl binary to be shipped with your scripts
  • :money_with_wings: StaticPerl - Helper script to create self contained statically linked Perl binary + script
  • :wrench: Compiler PerlC - Perl to C compiler
  • :dromedary_camel: Relocatable Perl - Patched Perl binary to make it relocatable
  • :construction_worker: Perl Build - A Perl builder
  • :hammer: Perl Cross - Configure and cross-compile perl
  • :wrench: Stableperl - Perl fork aiming for stability

Perl Application Bundlers / Packagers

  • :gift: PAR::Packer - Generate standalone executables from Perl programs
  • :feet: Perl Executing Browser - HTML interface for Perl desktop applications
  • :moneybag: PerlApp - Convert Perl program into a standalone application (commercial : part of ActiveState Perl Dev Kit)
  • :dollar: Perl2Exe - Convert Perl scripts to executable file (commercial)
  • :nut_and_bolt: App::FatPacker - Pack your dependencies onto your script file
  • :sparkles: Use PAR::Packer, Mojolicious, and Mojolicious::Plugin::Loco to create self-contained "web" application that runs locally, and uses web browser for GUI.
  • :gift: PPM - Perl Package Manager

Assets management

Git

Database tooling

  • :minidisc: MySQL Tuner - MySQL configuration and tuning
  • :cd: Sqitch - Database change management application
  • :vhs: ETL - Data migration helper
  • :dvd: QDepo - Graphical software to convert various DB data to various office formats
  • :floppy_disk: Bucardo - Master/slave Postgres replication

IDE

Continuous Integration

Desktop Applications

  • :movie_camera: Shutter - Screenshot utility
  • :computer: Ravada - Remote Virtual Desktops Manager
  • :pencil2: Kephra - Editor
  • :eggplant: GUIDeFATE - Design GUI in ASCII art

Tooling for Devs

  • :older_man: GNU Automake - Automatically generates Makefile.in files
  • :mag: Cloc - Count line of code
  • :wrench: Devel::hdb - Another Perl debugger
  • :tada: Diff So Fancy - The best-lookin' diffs
  • :fire: Flame Graphs - Profiled code visualization
  • :rainbow: Markdown - Markdown was initially created by John Gruber and Aaron Schwartz and implemented in Perl (git)
  • :wrench: Daiku - Kind of make
  • :1234: PDL - For scientific calculations
  • :handbag: Fink Project - Tool to help porting software from UNIX like to macOS
  • :arrows_counterclockwise: Reply - Perl REPL
  • :smirk_cat: Ack - Grep replacement, optimized for developers (ack 1, ack 2 and ack 3)
  • :memo: POD Web View - Edit POD file with live preview (github)
  • :checkered_flag: GNU Parallel - Shell tool to execute commands in parallel (github)
  • :tv: Hl - PCRE-based highlighter for terminal
  • :scissors: Vnlog - A toolkit for manipulating tabular ASCII data
  • :chart_with_upwards_trend: st - Simple statistics from the command line

Sysadmin

  • :dog2: Rex - A framework to simplify system administration and datacenter automation (github)
  • :rocket: Proxmox VE - A virtualization and LXC platform
  • :minidisc: CloneZilla - Partition and disk imaging/cloning program
  • :satellite: Zevenet - Load balancer (github)
  • :recycle: Virtualmin - Hosting and website control panel
  • :pill: Pinto - Create local CPAN repositories
  • :mag: Inxi - Print system informations (github)
  • :cow: Cowsay - The cow that can speak
  • :tropical_fish: Asciiquarium - An aquarium in your terminal
  • :underage: Web Sorrow - Security scanner
  • :family: LemonLDAP::NG - WebSSO, Access Management and Identity Federation
  • :suspect: PacketFence - Network access control (NAC) solution (github)
  • :octopus: Plain VM - Controle multiple VMs
  • :baggage_claim: Urpmi - Package manager
  • :school_satchel: Trizen - Lightweight AUR Package Manager
  • :email: Ashafix - Postfixadmin port in Perl
  • :arrow_right_hook: Shorewall - Gateway/firewall configuration tool
  • :wrench: NicTool - A DNS management solution (github)
  • :lock: Ferm - A frontend for iptables
  • :black_joker: SQLFairy - Convert SQL statements to graphs (github)
  • :computer: RemoteBox - VirtualBox Client with Remote Management
  • :gun: Nipe - Script to make Tor network your default gateway
  • :robot: Nikto - Webservers security scanner
  • :minidisc: ZnapZend - Backup ZFS with remote capabilities
  • :alarm_clock: NTPPool - Virtual cluster of timeservers (github)

Hosting

  • :cloud: cPanel - Hosting platform
  • :satellite: Perloku - Deploy Perl apps on Heroku

Uncategorized

Other Perl lists

:ghost: Execute Perl online

:boom: Execute Perl online (sites not dedicated to Perl)

:bear: Lint Perl online

:books: Books

  • :blue_book: Learning Perl (Llama book) (2021)
  • :orange_book: Perl new features (2021)
  • :blue_book: Preparing for Perl 7 (2020)
  • :blue_book: The best of Perl Hacks (2020)
  • :blue_book: Learning Perl Exercises (2020)
  • :green_book: Cucumber and Perl (2020)
  • :green_book: Mojolicious Web Clients (2020)
  • :orange_book: Advanced Perl Programming: From Advanced to Expert (2020)
  • :green_book: Pro Perl Programming: From Professional to Advanced (2020)
  • :orange_book: Perl one-liners cookbook (2020)
  • :green_book: Perl Programming for Beginners (2020)
  • :orange_book: Programming Perl (John Bach) (2020)
  • :blue_book: Beginning Perl Programming: From novice to professionnal (2019)
  • :blue_book: Step-by-Step Perl Programming (2019)
  • :blue_book: Perl : best 2020 (2019)
  • :construction: A practical guide to testing (2018)
  • :green_book: Selenium and Perl (2018)
  • :blue_book: Programming the Raspberry Pi with Perl (2018)
  • :orange_book: Single Page Application with Perl Dancer (2018)
  • :notebook_with_decorative_cover: Testing Strategies for Modern Perl (2018)
  • :notebook: Perl Taster (2017)
  • :blue_book: Practical Magick with C, PDL, and PDL::PP (2017)
  • :orange_book: Advanced programming in Perl for beginners with example for geoscientists (2016)
  • :notebook_with_decorative_cover: Modern Perl (2015)
  • :orange_book: Perl and regular expressions quick start workbook (2015)
  • :orange_book: Perl by example (2014)
  • :green_book: Penetration Testing with Perl (2014)
  • :green_book: Language Processing With Perl and Prolog: Theories, Implementation, and Application (2014)
  • :orange_book: Impatient Perl (2013)
  • :blue_book: Perl one liners (2013)
  • :orange_book: Intermediate Perl (Alpaca book) (2012)
  • :closed_book: Programming Perl (Camel book) (2012)
  • :blue_book: Beginning Perl (Curtis "Ovid" Poe) (2012)
  • :notebook: Perl pocket reference (2011)
  • :green_book: Perl and Apache: Your visual blueprint for developing dynamic Web content (2011)
  • :blue_book: Perlish Patterns (2011)
  • :notebook: Effective Perl Programming (2010)
  • :orange_book: Catalyst 5.8: the Perl MVC Framework (2010)
  • :blue_book: Automating System administration with Perl (2009)
  • :orange_book: The Definitive Guide to Catalyst (2009)
  • :blue_book: Learning Perl the hard way (2009)
  • :notebook: Developing Web Applications with Perl, memcached, MySQL and Apache (2009)
  • :notebook: Practical text mining with perl (2008)
  • :blue_book: Programming for linguist Perl for language researchers (2008)
  • :notebook: Mastering Perl (2014)
  • :closed_book: Perl programming for the absolute beginner (2007)
  • :notebook: Open Source Web Development with LAMP (2007)
  • :blue_book: Mod_perl 2 user guide (2007)
  • :closed_book: Regular Expression Pocket Reference (2007)
  • :closed_book: Perl Golf History (2007)
  • :orange_book: Perl Scripting for Windows Security (2007)
  • :notebook: Building Web Applications with Gantry and Bigtop (2007)
  • :notebook: Perl for Exploring DNA (2007)
  • :orange_book: Perl hacks (2006)
  • :green_book: Perl testing a developer notebook (2006)
  • :blue_book: Running weblogs with Slash (2006)
  • :orange_book: Minimal Perl: For UNIX and Linux People (2006)
  • :blue_book: Building Tag Clouds in Perl and PHP (2006)
  • :green_book: Wicked Cool Perl Scripts (2006)
  • :blue_book: Perl Power!: The Comprehensive Guide (2006)
  • :blue_book: Advanced Perl Programming (2005)
  • :ledger: Perl Best Practices (2005)
  • :green_book: Higher Order Perl (2005)
  • :closed_book: Extreme Programming with Perl (2005)
  • :notebook: Pro Perl debugging (2005)
  • :notebook: Pro Perl (2005)
  • :orange_book: Beginning perl web development (2005)
  • :orange_book: RT Essentials (2005)
  • :green_book: Pro Perl Parsing (2005)
  • :orange_book: Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours (2005)
  • :closed_book: Beginning Perl (James D Lee) (2004)
  • :green_book: Perlish Patterns: Secrets Of The Cpan Masters (2004)
  • :orange_book: Perl Debugger Pocket Reference (2004)
  • :orange_book: Perls of wisdom (2004)
  • :orange_book: Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Code (2004)
  • :blue_book: On Perl: Perl for Students and Professionals (2004)
  • :green_book: Perl Cookbook (Ram book) (2003)
  • :blue_book: Perl for dummies (2003)
  • :closed_book: Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics (2003)
  • :blue_book: Web, Graphics & Perl/Tk Programming (2003)
  • :closed_book: Games, Diversions and Perl Culture (2003)
  • :closed_book: Practical Perl with CGI Applications (2003)
  • :green_book: Perl Template Toolkit (2003)
  • :closed_book: Practical mod_perl (2003)
  • :notebook_with_decorative_cover: Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl (2003)
  • :orange_book: Spidering hacks (2003)
  • :green_book: Perl and XML (2002)
  • :orange_book: Perl for Oracle DBAs (2002)
  • :closed_book: Perl & LWP (2002)
  • :orange_book: Perl graphics Programming (2002)
  • :green_book: Graphic Programming with Perl (2002)
  • :ledger: Extending and embedding Perl (2002)
  • :blue_book: Mastering Perl/Tk (2002)
  • :blue_book: Mod_perl developer cookbooks (2002)
  • :closed_book: Embedding Perl in HTML with MASON (2002)
  • :notebook_with_decorative_cover: Web Services with Perl (2002)
  • :notebook: Perl for C programmers (2002)
  • :green_book: Writing Perl Modules for CPAN (2002)
  • :closed_book: Perl Developer's Dictionary (Clinton Pierce) (2002)
  • :green_book: Computer Science & Perl Programming (2002)
  • :notebook: Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days (2002)
  • :orange_book: Programming PERL in the .NET Environment (2002)
  • :blue_book: Perl How to program (2002)
  • :blue_book: Essential Perl (2002)
  • :orange_book: Instant CGI/Perl (2001)
  • :notebook: Data Munging with Perl (2001)
  • :notebook_with_decorative_cover: MySQL and Perl for the Web (2001)
  • :notebook_with_decorative_cover: Perl black book (2001)
  • :notebook: Network programming with Perl (2001)
  • :notebook_with_decorative_cover: Writing CGI applications with Perl (2001)
  • :blue_book: Total Perl (2001)
  • :closed_book: Perl for the Web (2001)
  • :blue_book: Beginning Perl for bioinformatics (2001)
  • :green_book: Mod_perl pocket reference (2001)
  • :orange_book: Core Perl (2001)
  • :orange_book: Perl for website management (2001)
  • :notebook: Picking up Perl (2001)
  • :blue_book: Perl 5 internals (2001)
  • :blue_book: Perl 5 Interactive Course (2001)
  • :blue_book: Perl Web Site Workshop (2001)
  • :orange_book: The Complete Reference: Perl (2001)
  • :green_book: Custom CGI scripting with Perl (2001)
  • :notebook: Professional Perl development (2001)
  • :green_book: Perl Debugged (2001)
  • :green_book: Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions (2001)
  • :green_book: Beginning Perl (Simon Cozens) - Free E-Book (2000)
  • :blue_book: Perl for system administration (2000)
  • :green_book: Database programming with Perl: Programming the perl DBI (2000)
  • :notebook: CGI programming with Perl (2000) (CGI Programming on the World Wide Web)
  • :notebook: Object Oriented Perl (2000)
  • :blue_book: Cross Platform Perl (2000)
  • :orange_book: Elements of Programming with Perl (1999)
  • :orange_book: Perl core language little black book (1999)
  • :notebook: Mastering algorithms with Perl (1999)
  • :blue_book: Practical Perl Programming (1999)
  • :green_book: Writing apache modules with Perl and C (1999)
  • :green_book: Learning Perl/Tk (1999)
  • :blue_book: Automating Windows with Perl (1999)
  • :orange_book: Programming Web Graphics with Perl and GNU Software (1999)
  • :orange_book: Perl/Tk Pocket Reference (1998)
  • :closed_book: Perl in a nutshell (1998)
  • :blue_book: Perl annotated archives (1998)
  • :orange_book: MacPerl: Power and Ease (1998)
  • :blue_book: Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm (1998)
  • :green_book: Perl from the ground up (1998)
  • :blue_book: Go to Perl 5 (1998)
  • :orange_book: Perl Power!: A JumpStart Guide to Programming with Perl 5 (1998)
  • :green_book: Perl 5 Complete (1998)
  • :notebook: Perl the programmer's companion (1997)
  • :green_book: Programming with Perl modules (1997)
  • :blue_book: Kit 2: Cgi with Perl Vb and C (1997)
  • :green_book: The CGI/PERL Cookbook (1997)
  • :notebook_with_decorative_cover: Web Programming with Perl 5 (1997)
  • :notebook: CGI Developer's Resource: Web programming in Tcl and Perl (1997)
  • :notebook: Web Client Programming with Perl (1997)
  • :orange_book: Learning Perl on Win32 Systems (1997)
  • :closed_book: Developing CGI Applications with Perl (1996)
  • :orange_book: Teach Yourself CGI Programming with Perl 5 in a week (1996)
  • :orange_book: Web Programming Secrets With Html, Cgi, and Perl (1996)
  • :blue_book: Creating cool web pages with Perl (1996)

Other books :jp:

  • :green_book: Essence of Perl Text Processing (2021)
  • :blue_book: Perl programming poisoning :jp: (2004)
  • :orange_book: Perl programming for CGI and text processing :jp: (2001)
  • :orange_book: Introduction to Perl :jp: (1994)
  • :blue_book: Welcome to Perl Country :jp: (1993)
  • :blue_book: Perl Writing Methods :jp: (1993)

Other books :fr:

  • :green_book: Les fondamentaux du langage Perl 5 : Apprentissage par la pratique (Philippe Banquet) :fr: (2013)
  • :blue_book: Perl moderne :fr: (2012)
  • :orange_book: Apprenez a programmer en Perl (Open Classroom) :fr: (2012)
  • :orange_book: Perl pour l’impatient :fr: (2005)
  • :green_book: De Perl a Java : Programmation des expressions regulieres :fr: (2004)
  • :orange_book: Perl 5 (Cyril Vincent) :fr: (2002)
  • :green_book: Visuel Pro Perl :fr: (2001)
  • :blue_book: Perl 5 (Clinto Pierce) :fr: (2001)
  • :orange_book: Perl 5 (David Till) :fr: (2000)
  • :blue_book: Perl mini-reference :fr: (2000)
  • :green_book: L'intro Perl 5 :fr: (2000)

:rocket: Develop with Perl

:arrow_down: Install CPAN modules

The modern way is to use cpanm (cpanminus). The tool is able to get the requested module and resolve dependencies. For instance, to install the excellent module XML::LibXML from Shlomif which is a wrapper of libxml2, we can do sudo cpanm XML::LibXML, that produces the following output (truncated) :

--> Working on XML::LibXML
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/XML-LibXML-2.0201.tar.gz ... OK
==> Found dependencies: Alien::Libxml2
--> Working on Alien::Libxml2
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/P/PL/PLICEASE/Alien-Libxml2-0.09.tar.gz ... OK
[...]
Building and testing Alien-Libxml2-0.09 ... OK
Successfully installed Alien-Libxml2-0.09
Configuring XML-LibXML-2.0201 ... OK
Building and testing XML-LibXML-2.0201 ... OK
Successfully installed XML-LibXML-2.0201 (upgraded from 2.0128)
13 distributions installed

Reinstalling a set of CPAN modules can be done simply by launching a bunch of cpanm commands or by specifying dependencies in a cpanfile (and using then carton or cpanm --installdeps . for the setup).

:heavy_check_mark: Linters

Executable by hand or directly integrated in your scripts, IDE or editors (vim users : ale or syntastic).

  • perl -c, to check the syntax. Be careful that it does more than only checking syntax, it actually executes the blocks BEGIN and END (compilation step). This design is the reason why the default linter used by the plugin vim ale is no longer perl -c (nor even perl -w). The syntax checking in Perl is great (as well as the error messages from the interpreter... I :heart: Perl)

  • Perl::Critic, that criticizes your coding style but do not check syntax. For instance, the file bad.pl contains :

use strict;
print "toto" }{

And perl -c bad.pl prints :

Unmatched right curly bracket at bad.pl line 3, at end of line
syntax error at bad.pl line 3, near ""toto" }"
Missing right curly or square bracket at bad.pl line 3, at end of line
bad.pl had compilation errors.

But perlcritic bad.pl tells us that everything is fine bad.pl source OK (but is not happy with the missing use strict).

  • A module that was part of the core distribution of Perl but was finally removed in Perl 5.19 : B::Lint. While we are here, how to know the history of a module in the core distribution ? Use corelist ! corelist B::Lint that gives us :
Data for 2017-09-22
B::Lint was first released with perl 5.005, deprecated (will be CPAN-only) in v5.17.9 and removed from v5.19.0

If a module goes out of core distribution it's not dramatic as it continues to be available in CPAN of course.

  • And Perl::Lint that focuses on speed while being compatible with Perl::Critic.

:hammer_and_pick: How to compile perl

See how to compile perl

Actually it will give this :

wget https://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.30.0.tar.gz
tar -xzf perl-5.30.0.tar.gz
cd perl-5.30.0
./Configure -des -Dprefix=$HOME/localperl
make
make test
make install

:pill: Compile modules

If we decide to use or not a module like cpanm, at the end the module is compiled using ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build. ExtUtils::MakeMaker is a core module, while Module::Build was added then removed (5.9 → 5.19). David Golden explains in a blog post why he requested to remove Module::Build.

ExtUtils::MakeMaker

The module ExtUtils::MakeMaker generate a Makefile from Makefile.PL :

perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

Module::Build

The module Module::Build serves the same goal but generates a file Build from the file BUILD.PL :

perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
./Build install

:headphones: How to contribute ?

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md

:bow: Contributors

Thank you to all the fantastic contributors :heartpulse:

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