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๐Ÿ“‹ 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 officially stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language, except when it doesn't
whereas unofficially for Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.
Nicknamed "the Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages".

"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 GPLโ€ฏv1+. Most of CPAN modules follow the same rule.

๐Ÿ‘ท Perl core development

๐Ÿ‘” Official

โš’๏ธ Distributions, modules and installers

  • ๐Ÿ’Š cpanm - Modern CPAN modules installer by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (CPAN profile)
  • โฉ cpm - A fast, parallel CPAN module installer
  • ๐ŸŒ‹ ActivePerl - Perl distribution for Windows/OSX/Linux ๐Ÿšช ๐ŸŽ ๐Ÿง (github)
  • ๐Ÿงฉ asdf - Perl plugin for asdf, a polyglot version manager
  • ๐Ÿ“ Strawberry Perl - Perl distribution for Windows (github)
  • ๐Ÿ”จ Perlbrew - Perl binaries installer
  • ๐Ÿ”ง plenv - Another Perl binaries handler. Differences between perlbrew and plenv
  • ๐Ÿ“ Berrybrew - The perlbrew for Windows Strawberry Perl
  • ๐ŸŒ PSPerl - Manage Strawberry Perl installs in your HOMEPATH
  • ๐ŸŽ Carton - A bundler for Perl (uses cpanfile)
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Carmel - Yet another CPAN module manager.
  • ๐Ÿ“– Task::Kensho - List of important modules
  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Corelist - A web interface of the tool corelist used to know core modules shipped in a specific version of Perl.
  • ๐Ÿ‘ด CPAN.pm - Venerable CPAN modules installer, part of core distribution, fully configurable (github)
  • ๐Ÿธ CPAN Plus - API to access CPAN mirrors (+ CPAN modules installer)
  • ๐Ÿšง cnext - Experimental CPAN module installer based on an alternative index (github)
  • ๐ŸŽŒ cpanx - A CPAN downloader script that will show what it will do before it does anything

๐Ÿช General

โ›ฝ Around the CPAN

๐Ÿป Social

Community

(See also Perl Mongers)

Newsfeeds

Blogging

Conferences

๐Ÿ“– Official documentation

Perl regex

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Tutorials

๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Tutorials in French

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Tutorials and related resources in Spanish

๐Ÿ“ณ Interactive tutorials

  • ๐Ÿ•Perltuts - Learn modern Perl any time and from everywhere ๐Ÿ’œ
  • ๐ŸŸ Learn Perl - Free interactive Perl tutorial ๐Ÿ’™
  • ๐Ÿซ TryPerl - TryRuby clone for Perl โค๏ธ (github)

๐Ÿซ Tutorials meta-site

๐Ÿ“‡ Perl features by version

:trollface: Perl folklore

  • ๐Ÿ’ฃ "Perl" vs "perl" - Perl is the language, perl is the interpreter, PERL is how you catch newbies ๐Ÿ‘ถ
  • :neckbeard: JAPH - Just Another Perl Hacker
  • ๐ŸŒ  PerlSecret - Secret operators and their nice nicknames
  • โž• $A++ - More than three hundred ways to increment $A, by the Paris Perl Mongers

  • ๐Ÿ’ฉ PHP was sometimes referred as People Hate Perl ๐Ÿ˜
  • ๐Ÿ’ฉ Write Only Language - Relatively common ๐Ÿ˜
  • ๐Ÿผ Baby Perl - Programming with a reduced set of builtins and idioms ๐Ÿ‘ถ
  • ๐Ÿ˜Ž Perl idioms - Perl offers powerful idiomatic expressions (see fluent Perl or this node)
  • ๐Ÿ˜ Principle of least astonishment - Apply to experienced programmers ๐Ÿ˜œ
  • ๐ŸŒŠ The CPAN river - Metaphor about CPAN dependencies
  • ๐ŸŽƒ The keeper of the pumpkin - The Perl maintainer (currently Sawyer X)
  • ๐Ÿ’— Blead - Blead is the default development branch for Perl
  • ๐Ÿ“Ž Perl is often considered as being the duct tape of the Internet

  • ๐Ÿช Larry Wall Homepage - Prepare your eyes
  • ๐Ÿ’Ž Pearl of great price - The biblical reference that inspired Larry Wall to name Perl

๐ŸŽƒ Perl Ecosystem

  • โ›ฝ CPAN - It is commonly accepted that the Perl killer app is CPAN ("CPAN is the language, Perl is just the syntax" - Audrey Tang)
  • ๐Ÿ’Š MetaCPAN - Search the CPAN (twitter)

News and forums engines

CMS

Blogging

Mailing lists engines

Email filtering

  • ๐Ÿ”ช SpamAssassin - Email spam filtering
  • ๐Ÿ“ง Amavis - Email filter interface
  • ๐Ÿ“ฌ POP file - Email filtering
  • โ›” ASSP - Anti Spam
  • ๐Ÿ‘ PostGrey - Postfix policy server implementing greylisting (github)

Communication

Monitoring

  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Munin - Supervision software (like Nagios and Shinken)
  • ๐Ÿ“‰ Monitorix - Lightweight system monitoring tool
  • ๐Ÿ“Š MRTG - Monitoring traffic load on network links (github)
  • ๐Ÿ“‰ Webmin - Web interface to administer Unix like machines
  • ๐Ÿ” Open Smart - Network and application monitoring
  • ๐Ÿ“‰ Loggerithim - Monitoring and remote management package
  • ๐Ÿ“Š OPS View - Network and application monitoring
  • โณ Net Disco - Network management tool
  • ๐Ÿšฌ SmokePing - Monitor network latency (github)
  • ๐Ÿ“ผ Stormons - Monitoring and mapping SAN storage devices.
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Proclet - Minimalist supervisor
  • ๐Ÿ”‹ Rainbarf - Fancy resource usage charts
  • โŒš Thruk - Multi-backends web interface for monitoring (github)
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Mailgraph - Mail statistics graphs (github)

Logs analyzers

Job queues

  • ๐Ÿ™ Minion - A high performance job queue
  • ๐Ÿ‘ท Gearman - Job server
  • ๐ŸšŸ Qudo - Job queue manager
  • ๐Ÿšž Resque - Job queue manager
  • ๐Ÿšก TheSchwartz - Job queue manager
  • ๐Ÿ“ก Helios - Distributed job processing and application framework

Tickets trackers

Wiki

E-Commerce

Backup tools

  • ๐Ÿ’พ RSnapshot - Backup utility based on rsync
  • ๐Ÿ’ฝ ABT - Another Backup tool
  • ๐Ÿ’ฟ Backup PC - Backup tool

Games

Web application frameworks

  • โ˜๏ธ Mojolicious - Web framework created by Sebastian Riedel (CPAN profile)
  • ๐Ÿ’ซ Catalyst - Web framework
  • ๐Ÿ’ƒ Dancer - Minimalist Web framework created by Alexis Sukrieh (see Dancer 1 and Dancer 2)
  • ๐ŸŠ Jifty - Web framework
  • โ˜๏ธ Cyclone 3 - Web application framework
  • ๐Ÿ Amon - Web application framework (github)
  • ๐Ÿ‘ Poet - Web application framework
  • ๐Ÿ˜ Gantry - Web application framework
  • ๐Ÿฆ Kossy - Simple web application framework
  • ๐Ÿผ Squatting - Web microframework
  • ๐Ÿบ Tatsumaki - Non-blocking web framework based on Plack and AnyEvent
  • ๐Ÿ‡ Raisin - REST API micro framework
  • ๐Ÿ‹ Maypole - MVC web application framework
  • ๐Ÿฌ Angelos - Web application framework
  • ๐ŸŸ Web::Simple - Simple web application framework
  • ๐Ÿ Ark - Lightweight Catalyst-ish web application framework
  • ๐Ÿฏ Shenker - Web application framework
  • ๐Ÿ‚ Noe - Web application framework
  • ๐Ÿ† Kamui - Web application framework based on Plack
  • ๐ŸŒ Web Nano - Really minimalistic web framework
  • ๐Ÿ RapidApp - Web toolkit and framework based on Catalyst (github)
  • โ„๏ธ Kelp - A web framework light (github)
  • ๐Ÿ˜‡ Marquee - Yet another Mojo based web framework
  • ๐Ÿท Piggly - A straight forward PSGI web framework
  • ๐Ÿ› PEF::Front - A web framework
  • ๐Ÿค– Web::Machine - A RESTful web framework modeled as a state machine
  • ๐Ÿ”ฅ Combust - A web framework
  • ๐ŸŒฑ Pepper - Not a framework. A quick-start kit for learning and creating microservices

PSGI adapters and web servers

  • ๐Ÿท Plack - PSGI toolkit and server adapter
  • ๐Ÿ— HTTP::Server::Simple - Simple standalone HTTP daemon
  • ๐Ÿฏ HTTP::Daemon - Simple http server class
  • ๐Ÿฐ HTTP::Tiny - Minimalist HTTP client
  • ๐Ÿถ Continuity - Library to simplify web applications (including a web server)
  • ๐Ÿญ Starman - High-performance preforking PSGI server
  • ๐Ÿฑ Twiggy - AnyEvent HTTP server for PSGI
  • ๐Ÿป Starlet - Simple and high-performance PSGI server
  • ๐Ÿธ Corona - Asynchronous PSGI server
  • ๐ŸŽ Gazelle - Preforked Plack handler for performance freaks
  • ๐Ÿด Arriba - PSGI server with SPDY support
  • ๐Ÿน Perlbal - HTTP load balancer
  • ๐Ÿ‚ HTTP::Engine - Web server
  • ๐Ÿ• Feersum - PSGI engine based on EV/libev
  • ๐Ÿ‘น Server::Starter - Super Daemon to handle hot deployment of server programs
  • ๐Ÿ Starlight - PSGI/Plack HTTP server with pre-forks

Templating

Compiler and alternative interpreters

  • ๐Ÿ”ง Compiler Perlito - Perl to Java and Perl to JavaScript
  • ๐Ÿ’ช RPerl - Restricted Perl, an optimizing compiler (github)
  • ๐Ÿ”ง CPerl - Alternative Perl interpreter
  • ๐Ÿ”จ TinyPerl - Very compact Perl binary to be shipped with your scripts
  • ๐Ÿ’ธ StaticPerl - Helper script to create self contained statically linked Perl binary + script
  • ๐Ÿ”ง Compiler PerlC - Perl to C compiler
  • ๐Ÿช Relocatable Perl - Patched Perl binary to make it relocatable
  • ๐Ÿ‘ท Perl Build - A Perl builder
  • ๐Ÿ”จ Perl Cross - Configure and cross-compile perl
  • ๐Ÿ”ง Stableperl - Perl fork aiming for stability
  • ๐Ÿ‘œ APPerl - Actually Portable Perl - run cross-platform with the same standalone binary with perl modules packed inside of it (github, metacpan)

Perl Application Bundlers / Packagers

  • ๐ŸŽ PAR::Packer - Generate standalone executables from Perl programs
  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ PerlApp - Convert Perl program into a standalone application (commercial : part of ActiveState Perl Dev Kit)
  • ๐Ÿ’ต Perl2Exe - Convert Perl scripts to executable file (commercial)
  • ๐Ÿ”ฉ App::FatPacker - Pack your dependencies onto your script file
  • โœจ Use PAR::Packer, Mojolicious, and Mojolicious::Plugin::Loco to create self-contained "web" application that runs locally, and uses web browser for GUI.
  • ๐ŸŽ PPM - Perl Package Manager

Assets management

Git

Database tooling

  • ๐Ÿ’ฝ MySQL Tuner - MySQL configuration and tuning
  • ๐Ÿ’ฟ Sqitch - Database change management application
  • ๐Ÿ“ผ ETL - Data migration helper
  • ๐Ÿ“€ QDepo - Graphical software to convert various DB data to various office formats
  • ๐Ÿ’พ Bucardo - Master/slave Postgres replication

IDE

Continuous Integration

Desktop Applications

Desktop Applications Development

  • ๐Ÿ† GUIDeFATE - Design GUI in ASCII art
  • ๐Ÿ…ฟ๏ธ Prima - Multi-platform GUI toolkit in C and Perl, includes a visual builder and a graphic POD viewer (github, metacpan)
  • โœจ IUP - Interface to IUP multi-platform GUI toolkit
  • ๐Ÿพ Perl Executing Browser - HTML interface for Perl desktop applications. Inspired by Electron

Tooling for Devs

  • ๐Ÿ‘ด GNU Automake - Automatically generates Makefile.in files
  • ๐Ÿ” Cloc - Count line of code
  • ๐Ÿ”ง Devel::hdb - Another Perl debugger
  • ๐ŸŽ‰ Diff So Fancy - The best-lookin' diffs
  • ๐Ÿ‘€ App::sdif - cdif (word context diff), sdif (side-by-side diff) and watchdiff (repeat command and watch differences) (github, metacpan)
  • ๐Ÿ”ฅ Flame Graphs - Profiled code visualization
  • ๐ŸŒˆ Markdown - Markdown was initially created by John Gruber and Aaron Schwartz and implemented in Perl (git)
  • ๐ŸŠ Swim - rich, consistent, extensible markup language and framework in PEG topdown grammar
  • ๐Ÿ’ฒ Pegex - combine Parsing Expression Grammars (PEG) with Regular Expressions (Regex)
  • ๐Ÿ”ง Daiku - Kind of make
  • ๐Ÿ”ข PDL - For scientific calculations
  • ๐Ÿ‘œ Fink Project - Tool to help porting software from UNIX like to macOS
  • ๐Ÿ”„ Reply - Perl REPL
  • ๐Ÿ˜ผ Ack - Grep replacement, optimized for developers (ack 1, ack 2 and ack 3)
  • ๐Ÿ“ POD Web View - Edit POD file with live preview (github)
  • ๐Ÿ GNU Parallel - Shell tool to execute commands in parallel (github)
  • ๐Ÿ“บ Hl - PCRE-based highlighter for terminal
  • โœ‚๏ธ Vnlog - A toolkit for manipulating tabular ASCII data
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ st - Simple statistics from the command line
  • ๐Ÿš p - Steroids for your perl one-liners
  • ๐Ÿ’ซ pl - One-Liner Magic Wand
  • ๐Ÿ“Š language-benchmarks - A simple benchmark for compiled and interpreted languages

Sysadmin

  • ๐Ÿ• Rex - A framework to simplify system administration and datacenter automation (github)
  • ๐Ÿš€ Proxmox VE - A virtualization and LXC platform
  • ๐Ÿ’ฝ CloneZilla - Partition and disk imaging/cloning program
  • ๐Ÿ“ก Zevenet - Load balancer (github)
  • โ™ป๏ธ Virtualmin - Hosting and website control panel
  • ๐Ÿ’Š Pinto - Create local CPAN repositories
  • ๐Ÿ” Inxi - Print system informations (github)
  • ๐Ÿ”ž Web Sorrow - Security scanner
  • ๐Ÿ‘ช LemonLDAP::NG - WebSSO, Access Management and Identity Federation
  • :suspect: PacketFence - Network access control (NAC) solution (github)
  • ๐Ÿ™ Plain VM - Controle multiple VMs
  • ๐Ÿ›„ Urpmi - Package manager
  • ๐ŸŽ’ Trizen - Lightweight AUR Package Manager
  • ๐Ÿ“ง Ashafix - Postfixadmin port in Perl
  • โ†ช๏ธ Shorewall - Gateway/firewall configuration tool
  • ๐Ÿ”ง NicTool - A DNS management solution (github)
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Ferm - A frontend for iptables
  • ๐Ÿƒ SQLFairy - Convert SQL statements to graphs (github)
  • ๐Ÿ’ป RemoteBox - VirtualBox Client with Remote Management
  • ๐Ÿ”ซ Nipe - Script to make Tor network your default gateway
  • ๐Ÿค– Nikto - Webservers security scanner
  • ๐Ÿ’ฝ ZnapZend - Backup ZFS with remote capabilities
  • โฐ NTPPool - Virtual cluster of timeservers (github)
  • ๐Ÿ”Œ PerlPowerTools - Unix toolbox in pure Perl (github, metacpan)
  • โ“‚๏ธ MoreUtils - a collection of unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young. 6 out of 15 are in Perl (git://git.joeyh.name/moreutils)
  • ๐Ÿ”ฃ uni - command-line utility to find or display Unicode characters (metacpan)

Hosting

  • โ˜๏ธ cPanel - Hosting platform
  • ๐Ÿ“ก Perloku - Deploy Perl apps on Heroku

Vanity

  • ๐Ÿฎ Cowsay - The cow that can speak
  • ๐Ÿ  Asciiquarium - An aquarium in your terminal
  • ๐Ÿ˜บ nyan - Your very own animated terminal Nyancat!

Uncategorized

Other Perl lists

๐Ÿ‘ป Execute Perl online

๐Ÿ’ฅ Execute Perl online (sites not dedicated to Perl)

๐Ÿป Lint Perl online

๐Ÿ“š Books

  • ๐Ÿ“— Perl Programming (Jean-Jacques Reibel) (2023)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Learning Perl (Llama book) (2021)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl new features (2021)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Preparing for Perl 7 (2020)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ The best of Perl Hacks (2020)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Learning Perl Exercises (2020)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Cucumber and Perl (2020)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Mojolicious Web Clients (2020)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Advanced Perl Programming: From Advanced to Expert (2020)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Pro Perl Programming: From Professional to Advanced (2020)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl one-liners cookbook (2020)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Perl Programming for Beginners (2020)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Programming Perl (John Bach) (2020)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Beginning Perl Programming: From novice to professionnal (2019)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Step-by-Step Perl Programming (2019)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Perl : best 2020 (2019)
  • ๐Ÿšง A practical guide to testing (2018)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Selenium and Perl (2018)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Programming the Raspberry Pi with Perl (2018)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Single Page Application with Perl Dancer (2018)
  • ๐Ÿ“” Testing Strategies for Modern Perl (2018)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Perl Taster (2017)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Practical Magick with C, PDL, and PDL::PP (2017)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Advanced programming in Perl for beginners with example for geoscientists (2016)
  • ๐Ÿ“” Modern Perl (2015)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl and regular expressions quick start workbook (2015)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl by example (2014)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Penetration Testing with Perl (2014)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Language Processing With Perl and Prolog: Theories, Implementation, and Application (2014)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Impatient Perl (2013)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Perl one liners (2013)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Intermediate Perl (Alpaca book) (2012)
  • ๐Ÿ“• Programming Perl (Camel book) (2012)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Beginning Perl (Curtis "Ovid" Poe) (2012)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Perl pocket reference (2011)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Perl and Apache: Your visual blueprint for developing dynamic Web content (2011)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Perlish Patterns (2011)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Effective Perl Programming (2010)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Catalyst 5.8: the Perl MVC Framework (2010)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Automating System administration with Perl (2009)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ The Definitive Guide to Catalyst (2009)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Learning Perl the hard way (2009)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Developing Web Applications with Perl, memcached, MySQL and Apache (2009)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Practical text mining with perl (2008)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Programming for linguist Perl for language researchers (2008)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Mastering Perl (2014)
  • ๐Ÿ“• Perl programming for the absolute beginner (2007)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Open Source Web Development with LAMP (2007)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Mod_perl 2 user guide (2007)
  • ๐Ÿ“• Regular Expression Pocket Reference (2007)
  • ๐Ÿ“• Perl Golf History (2007)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl Scripting for Windows Security (2007)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Building Web Applications with Gantry and Bigtop (2007)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Perl for Exploring DNA (2007)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl hacks (2006)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Perl testing a developer notebook (2006)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Running weblogs with Slash (2006)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Minimal Perl: For UNIX and Linux People (2006)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Building Tag Clouds in Perl and PHP (2006)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Wicked Cool Perl Scripts (2006)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Perl Power!: The Comprehensive Guide (2006)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Advanced Perl Programming (2005)
  • ๐Ÿ“’ Perl Best Practices (2005)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Higher Order Perl (2005)
  • ๐Ÿ“• Extreme Programming with Perl (2005)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Pro Perl debugging (2005)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Pro Perl (2005)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Beginning perl web development (2005)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ RT Essentials (2005)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Pro Perl Parsing (2005)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours (2005)
  • ๐Ÿ“• Beginning Perl (James D Lee) (2004)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Perlish Patterns: Secrets Of The Cpan Masters (2004)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl Debugger Pocket Reference (2004)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perls of wisdom (2004)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Code (2004)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ On Perl: Perl for Students and Professionals (2004)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Perl Cookbook (Ram book) (2003)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Perl for dummies (2003)
  • ๐Ÿ“• Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics (2003)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Web, Graphics & Perl/Tk Programming (2003)
  • ๐Ÿ“• Games, Diversions and Perl Culture (2003)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Learning Perl Objects References and Modules (2003)
  • ๐Ÿ“• Practical Perl with CGI Applications (2003)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Perl Template Toolkit (2003)
  • ๐Ÿ“• Practical mod_perl (2003)
  • ๐Ÿ“” Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl (2003)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Spidering hacks (2003)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Perl and XML (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl for Oracle DBAs (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ“• Perl & LWP (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl graphics Programming (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Graphic Programming with Perl (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ“’ Extending and embedding Perl (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Mastering Perl/Tk (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Mod_perl developer cookbooks (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ“• Embedding Perl in HTML with MASON (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ“” Web Services with Perl (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Perl for C programmers (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Writing Perl Modules for CPAN (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ“• Perl Developer's Dictionary (Clinton Pierce) (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Computer Science & Perl Programming (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Programming PERL in the .NET Environment (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Perl How to program (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Essential Perl (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Instant CGI/Perl (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Data Munging with Perl (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“” MySQL and Perl for the Web (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“” Perl black book (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Network programming with Perl (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“” Writing CGI applications with Perl (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Total Perl (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“• Perl for the Web (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Beginning Perl for bioinformatics (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Mod_perl pocket reference (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Core Perl (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl for website management (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Picking up Perl (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Perl 5 internals (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Perl 5 Interactive Course (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Perl Web Site Workshop (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ The Complete Reference: Perl (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Custom CGI scripting with Perl (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Professional Perl development (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Perl Debugged (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Beginning Perl (Simon Cozens) - Free E-Book (2000)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Perl for system administration (2000)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Database programming with Perl: Programming the perl DBI (2000)
  • ๐Ÿ““ CGI programming with Perl (2000) (CGI Programming on the World Wide Web)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Object Oriented Perl (2000)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Cross Platform Perl (2000)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Elements of Programming with Perl (1999)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl core language little black book (1999)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Mastering algorithms with Perl (1999)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Practical Perl Programming (1999)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Writing apache modules with Perl and C (1999)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Learning Perl/Tk (1999)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Automating Windows with Perl (1999)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Programming Web Graphics with Perl and GNU Software (1999)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl/Tk Pocket Reference (1998)
  • ๐Ÿ“• Perl in a nutshell (1998)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Perl annotated archives (1998)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ MacPerl: Power and Ease (1998)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm (1998)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Perl from the ground up (1998)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Go to Perl 5 (1998)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl Power!: A JumpStart Guide to Programming with Perl 5 (1998)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Perl 5 Complete (1998)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Perl the programmer's companion (1997)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Programming with Perl modules (1997)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Kit 2: Cgi with Perl Vb and C (1997)
  • ๐Ÿ“— The CGI/PERL Cookbook (1997)
  • ๐Ÿ“” Web Programming with Perl 5 (1997)
  • ๐Ÿ““ CGI Developer's Resource: Web programming in Tcl and Perl (1997)
  • ๐Ÿ““ Web Client Programming with Perl (1997)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Learning Perl on Win32 Systems (1997)
  • ๐Ÿ“• Developing CGI Applications with Perl (1996)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Teach Yourself CGI Programming with Perl 5 in a week (1996)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Web Programming Secrets With Html, Cgi, and Perl (1996)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Creating cool web pages with Perl (1996)

Other books ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต

  • ๐Ÿ“— Essence of Perl Text Processing (2021)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Perl programming poisoning ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต (2004)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl programming for CGI and text processing ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Introduction to Perl ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต (1994)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Welcome to Perl Country ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต (1993)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Perl Writing Methods ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต (1993)

Other books ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท

  • ๐Ÿ“— Les fondamentaux du langage Perl 5 : Apprentissage par la pratique (Philippe Banquet) ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท (2013)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Perl moderne ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท (2012)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Apprenez a programmer en Perl (Open Classroom) ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท (2012)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl pour lโ€™impatient ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท (2005)
  • ๐Ÿ“— De Perl a Java : Programmation des expressions regulieres ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท (2004)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl 5 (Cyril Vincent) ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท (2002)
  • ๐Ÿ“— Visuel Pro Perl ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Perl 5 (Clinto Pierce) ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท (2001)
  • ๐Ÿ“™ Perl 5 (David Till) ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท (2000)
  • ๐Ÿ“˜ Perl mini-reference ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท (2000)
  • ๐Ÿ“— L'intro Perl 5 ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท (2000)

๐Ÿš€ Develop with Perl

โฌ‡๏ธ 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).

โœ”๏ธ 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 โค๏ธ 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 5.19โ€‰: B::Lint. While we are here, how to know the history of a module in the core distribution ? Use corelistโ€ฏ! 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.

โš’๏ธ 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

๐Ÿ’Š 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 โ†’ 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

๐ŸŽง How to contribute ?

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md

๐Ÿ™‡ Contributors

Thank you to all the fantastic contributors ๐Ÿ’—

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