The Perl Programming Language

Perl 5 is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 23 years of development. More about why we love Perl...

Learning Perl 5 With free online books, over 23,500 extension modules, and a large developer community, there are many ways to learn Perl 5.	The Perl Community Perl has an active world wide community with over 300 local groups, mailing lists and support/discussion websites.
Documentation Core documentation, FAQs and translations.	Contribute to Perl Perl is being actively developed. There are many ways to get involved.
CPAN The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) has over 18,000 open source modules available for download.	Events and Conferences Conferences, social and technical events around the world offer lots of networking and learning opportunities.
Perl 6 Perl 6 is a sister language, part of the Perl family. Perl 6 is not production ready yet, you can get involved with its development though.	The Perl Foundation The Perl Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl programming language through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code.

Perl -- It's like Java, only it lets you deliver on time and under budget.