We've only scraped the surface of the wild world of Perl. Here's
where to find out more...
Perl
www.activestate.com
Home of ActivePerl, the Perl interpreter for Windows. Go here
for updated documentation, development kits and more.
www.perl.com
The official home of the Perl language with O'Reilly Publishing.
Docs, FAQs and news.
www.findtutorials.com
Want to track down a tutorial on Perl? Start here.
www.netmag.co.uk/forums/forum_web_builder.htm
Got a question? Ask it on .net's Web builder forum.
Free hosting with CGI
www.uklinux.net
Our fave: 20MB Web space for free, with Perl, CGI, PHP good help
pages, no ads, and their profits go to developing Open Source
software
Other free hosts with CGI - some may place banner ad on your
site.
www.portland.co.uk
www.virtualave.net
free.prohosting.com
www.tripod.com
www.netfirms.com
Free scripts
www.perlarchive.com
Thousands of Perl scripts, documentation and an excellent online
forum for asking questions
www.cgi-resources.com
Huge archive of scripts to do almost anything you could want,
plus links to tutorials and documentation
www.bignosebird.com
OK, not quite so many scripts here, but we like the site name
www.scriptsearch.com
Want to find a script quickly? Try this script search engine
Books
Learning Perl, 2nd Edition, Schwartz & Christiansen,
O'Reilly, 1997.
So you want to get to grips with this whole Perl thing? Learning
Perl has been the start for many a PerlMonger.
Learning Perl on Win32 Systems, Swartz, Olson & Christiansen,
O'Reilly, 1997.
An unfortunately slightly out-of-date book, but a good introduction
to Perl for Windows users.
Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro,
Addison-Wesley 1998.
A nice, visual guide to getting started with Perl on your Web
site.