Introduction

Welcome to the Amiga port of Perl 4.035. For those of you who may not be familiar with perl, it is a programming language that has become very popular among user of the Unix operating system. The language is very useful for the manipulation of text, files, and processes and the syntax is very C-like. Perl is interpreted, which can be very convenient when developing small utilities and one-shot scripts.

I'm calling the current version of Amiga Perl 'Beta' since it still has a couple of known, minor, bugs and fails a few of the regression tests. It is very usable, however, and I have not had any major problems (i.e. no gurus!) with it now that I have gotten it stabilized. Obviously, the program has no warranty, since it is free software. For more warranty and redistribution information, see the 'README', 'Copying', and 'Artistic' files that should have been included with the program.

In the spirit of perl, I freely encourage users to modify the source code and fix bugs to their heart's content. I would like to remain the maintainer of Amiga perl, so if you have any bug-fixes or useful patches, let me know! (See the section on 'Reporting Bugs' below for more information.)



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