=head1 NAME
-perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.32 $, $Date: 1999/10/14 18:46:09 $)
+perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
The standard release of Perl (the one maintained by the perl
development team) is distributed only in source code form. You
-can find this at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/latest.tar.gz , which
-in standard Internet format (a gzipped archive in POSIX tar format).
+can find this at http://www.cpan.org/src/latest.tar.gz , which
+is in a standard Internet format (a gzipped archive in POSIX tar format).
Perl builds and runs on a bewildering number of platforms. Virtually
all known and current Unix derivatives are supported (Perl's native
platform), as are other systems like VMS, DOS, OS/2, Windows,
-QNX, BeOS, and the Amiga. There are also the beginnings of support
-for MPE/iX.
+QNX, BeOS, OS X, MPE/iX and the Amiga.
Binary distributions for some proprietary platforms, including
-Apple systems, can be found http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/ directory.
+Apple systems, can be found http://www.cpan.org/ports/ directory.
Because these are not part of the standard distribution, they may
and in fact do differ from the base Perl port in a variety of ways.
You'll have to check their respective release notes to see just
Some URLs that might help you are:
- http://language.perl.com/info/software.html
- http://www.perl.com/latest/
- http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/
+ http://www.cpan.org/ports/
+ http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html
Someone looking for a Perl for Win16 might look to Laszlo Molnar's djgpp
-port in http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/msdos/ , which comes with clear
+port in http://www.cpan.org/ports/#msdos , which comes with clear
installation instructions. A simple installation guide for MS-DOS using
Ilya Zakharevich's OS/2 port is available at
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/%7Epiet/perl5dos.html
approaches are doomed to failure.
One simple way to check that things are in the right place is to print out
-the hard-coded @INC which perl is looking for.
+the hard-coded @INC that perl looks through for libraries:
% perl -e 'print join("\n",@INC)'
-If this command lists any paths which don't exist on your system, then you
+If this command lists any paths that don't exist on your system, then you
may need to move the appropriate libraries to these locations, or create
symbolic links, aliases, or shortcuts appropriately. @INC is also printed as
part of the output of
% perl -V
-You might also want to check out L<perlfaq8/"How do I keep my own
-module/library directory?">.
+You might also want to check out
+L<perlfaq8/"How do I keep my own module/library directory?">.
=head2 I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
=head2 What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN? What does CPAN/src/... mean?
-CPAN stands for Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, a huge archive
-replicated on dozens of machines all over the world. CPAN contains
+CPAN stands for Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, a ~700mb archive
+replicated on nearly 200 machines all over the world. CPAN contains
source code, non-native ports, documentation, scripts, and many
third-party modules and extensions, designed for everything from
commercial database interfaces to keyboard/screen control to web
-walking and CGI scripts. The master machine for CPAN is
-ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/, but you can use the
-address http://www.perl.com/CPAN/CPAN.html to fetch a copy from a
-"site near you". See http://www.perl.com/CPAN (without a slash at the
-end) for how this process works.
+walking and CGI scripts. The master web site for CPAN is
+http://www.cpan.org/ and there is the CPAN Multiplexer at
+http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html which will choose a mirror near you
+via DNS. See http://www.perl.com/CPAN (without a slash at the
+end) for how this process works. Also, http://mirror.cpan.org/
+has a nice interface to the http://www.cpan.org/MIRRORED.BY
+mirror directory.
+
+See the CPAN FAQ at http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html for
+answers to the most frequently asked questions about CPAN
+including how to become a mirror.
CPAN/path/... is a naming convention for files available on CPAN
sites. CPAN indicates the base directory of a CPAN mirror, and the
rest of the path is the path from that directory to the file. For
instance, if you're using ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN
-as your CPAN site, the file CPAN/misc/japh file is downloadable as
+as your CPAN site, the file CPAN/misc/japh is downloadable as
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/misc/japh .
-Considering that there are hundreds of existing modules in the
-archive, one probably exists to do nearly anything you can think of.
+Considering that there are close to two thousand existing modules in
+the archive, one probably exists to do nearly anything you can think of.
Current categories under CPAN/modules/by-category/ include Perl core
modules; development support; operating system interfaces; networking,
devices, and interprocess communication; data type utilities; database
utilities; filehandle and I/O; Microsoft Windows modules; and
miscellaneous modules.
+See http://www.cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html or
+http://search.cpan.org/ for a more complete list of modules by category.
+
+
=head2 Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
Certainly not. Larry expects that he'll be certified before Perl is.
installed as well: type C<man perl> if you're on a system resembling Unix.
This will lead you to other important man pages, including how to set your
$MANPATH. If you're not on a Unix system, access to the documentation
-will be different; for example, it might be only in HTML format. But all
+will be different; for example, documentation might only be in HTML format. All
proper Perl installations have fully-accessible documentation.
You might also try C<perldoc perl> in case your system doesn't
have a proper man command, or it's been misinstalled. If that doesn't
work, try looking in /usr/local/lib/perl5/pod for documentation.
-If all else fails, consult the CPAN/doc directory, which contains the
-complete documentation in various formats, including native pod,
-troff, html, and plain text. There's also a web page at
-http://www.perl.com/perl/info/documentation.html that might help.
+If all else fails, consult http://perldoc.cpan.org/ or
+http://www.perldoc.com/ both offer the complete documentation
+in html format.
-Many good books have been written about Perl -- see the section below
+Many good books have been written about Perl--see the section below
for more details.
Tutorial documents are included in current or upcoming Perl releases
-include L<perltoot> for objects, L<perlopentut> for file opening
-semantics, L<perlreftut> for managing references, and L<perlxstut>
-for linking C and Perl together. There may be more by the
-time you read this. The following URLs might also be of
+include L<perltoot> for objects or L<perlboot> for a beginner's
+approach to objects, L<perlopentut> for file opening semantics,
+L<perlreftut> for managing references, L<perlretut> for regular
+expressions, L<perlthrtut> for threads, L<perldebtut> for debugging,
+and L<perlxstut> for linking C and Perl together. There may be more
+by the time you read this. The following URLs might also be of
assistance:
- http://language.perl.com/info/documentation.html
+ http://perldoc.cpan.org/
+ http://www.perldoc.com/
http://reference.perl.com/query.cgi?tutorials
+ http://bookmarks.cpan.org/search.cgi?cat=Training%2FTutorials
=head2 What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
including setting the Followup-To header line to NOT include alt.sources;
see their FAQ (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-sources-intro/) for details.
-If you're just looking for software, first use AltaVista
-(http://www.altavista.com), Deja (http://www.deja.com), and
-search CPAN. This is faster and more productive than just posting
-a request.
+If you're just looking for software, first use Google
+(http://www.google.com), Deja (http://www.deja.com), and
+CPAN Search (http://search.cpan.org). This is faster and more
+productive than just posting a request.
=head2 Perl Books
A number of books on Perl and/or CGI programming are available. A few of
these are good, some are OK, but many aren't worth your money. Tom
Christiansen maintains a list of these books, some with extensive
-reviews, at http://www.perl.com/perl/critiques/index.html.
+reviews, at http://www.perl.com/perl/critiques/index.html .
The incontestably definitive reference book on Perl, written by
-the creator of Perl, is now in its second edition:
+the creator of Perl, is now (July 2000) in its third edition:
Programming Perl (the "Camel Book"):
- by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Randal Schwartz
- ISBN 1-56592-149-6 (English)
- ISBN 4-89052-384-7 (Japanese)
- URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl2/
- (French, German, Italian, and Hungarian translations also
- available)
+ by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant
+ 0-596-00027-8 [3rd edition July 2000]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/
+ (English, translations to several languages are also available)
The companion volume to the Camel containing thousands
-of real-world examples, mini-tutorials, and complete programs
-(first premiering at the 1998 Perl Conference), is:
+of real-world examples, mini-tutorials, and complete programs is:
The Perl Cookbook (the "Ram Book"):
- by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington,
- with Foreword by Larry Wall
- ISBN: 1-56592-243-3
- URL: http://perl.oreilly.com/cookbook/
-
-If you're already a hard-core systems programmer, then the Camel Book
-might suffice for you to learn Perl from. But if you're not, check
-out:
-
- Learning Perl (the "Llama Book"):
- by Randal Schwartz and Tom Christiansen
- with Foreword by Larry Wall
- ISBN: 1-56592-284-0
- URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl2/
-
-Despite the picture at the URL above, the second edition of "Llama
-Book" really has a blue cover, and is updated for the 5.004 release
-of Perl. Various foreign language editions are available, including
-I<Learning Perl on Win32 Systems> (the Gecko Book).
-
-If you're not an accidental programmer, but a more serious and possibly
-even degreed computer scientist who doesn't need as much hand-holding as
-we try to provide in the Llama or its defurred cousin the Gecko, please
-check out the delightful book, I<Perl: The Programmer's Companion>,
-written by Nigel Chapman.
-
-You can order O'Reilly books directly from O'Reilly & Associates,
-1-800-998-9938. Local/overseas is 1-707-829-0515. If you can
-locate an O'Reilly order form, you can also fax to 1-707-829-0104.
-See http://www.ora.com/ on the Web.
+ by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington,
+ with Foreword by Larry Wall
+ ISBN 1-56592-243-3 [1st Edition August 1998]
+ http://perl.oreilly.com/cookbook/
+
+If you're already a seasoned programmer, then the Camel Book might
+suffice for you to learn Perl from. If you're not, check out the
+Llama book:
+
+ Learning Perl (the "Llama Book")
+ by Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Phoenix
+ ISBN 0-596-00132-0 [3rd edition July 2001]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/
+
+If you're not an accidental programmer, but a more serious and
+possibly even degreed computer scientist who doesn't need as much
+hand-holding as we try to provide in the Llama, please check out the
+delightful book
+
+ Perl: The Programmer's Companion
+ by Nigel Chapman
+ ISBN 0-471-97563-X [1997, 3rd printing Spring 1998]
+ http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/97563-X.htm
+ http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/chapman/perl/perltpc.html (errata etc)
+
+If you are more at home in Windows the following is available
+(though unfortunately rather dated).
+
+ Learning Perl on Win32 Systems (the "Gecko Book")
+ by Randal L. Schwartz, Erik Olson, and Tom Christiansen,
+ with foreword by Larry Wall
+ ISBN 1-56592-324-3 [1st edition August 1997]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperlwin/
+
+Addison-Wesley (http://www.awlonline.com/) and Manning
+(http://www.manning.com/) are also publishers of some fine Perl books
+such as I<Object Oriented Programming with Perl> by Damian Conway and
+I<Network Programming with Perl> by Lincoln Stein.
+
+An excellent technical book discounter is Bookpool at
+http://www.bookpool.com/ where a 30% discount or more is not unusual.
What follows is a list of the books that the FAQ authors found personally
useful. Your mileage may (but, we hope, probably won't) vary.
-Recommended books on (or mostly on) Perl follow; those marked with
-a star may be ordered from O'Reilly.
+Recommended books on (or mostly on) Perl follow.
-=over
+=over 4
=item References
- *Programming Perl
- by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Randal L. Schwartz
+ Programming Perl
+ by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant
+ ISBN 0-596-00027-8 [3rd edition July 2000]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/
- *Perl 5 Desktop Reference
+ Perl 5 Pocket Reference
by Johan Vromans
+ ISBN 0-596-00032-4 [3rd edition May 2000]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlpr3/
- *Perl in a Nutshell
+ Perl in a Nutshell
by Ellen Siever, Stephan Spainhour, and Nathan Patwardhan
+ ISBN 1-56592-286-7 [1st edition December 1998]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlnut/
=item Tutorials
-
- *Learning Perl [2nd edition]
- by Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Christiansen
- with foreword by Larry Wall
- *Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
+ Elements of Programming with Perl
+ by Andrew L. Johnson
+ ISBN 1884777805 [1st edition October 1999]
+ http://www.manning.com/Johnson/
+
+ Learning Perl
+ by Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Phoenix
+ ISBN 0-596-00132-0 [3rd edition July 2001]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/
+
+ Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
by Randal L. Schwartz, Erik Olson, and Tom Christiansen,
with foreword by Larry Wall
+ ISBN 1-56592-324-3 [1st edition August 1997]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperlwin/
Perl: The Programmer's Companion
by Nigel Chapman
+ ISBN 0-471-97563-X [1997, 3rd printing Spring 1998]
+ http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/97563-X.htm
+ http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/chapman/perl/perltpc.html (errata etc)
- Cross-Platform Perl
- by Eric F. Johnson
+ Cross-Platform Perl
+ by Eric Foster-Johnson
+ ISBN 1-55851-483-X [2nd edition September 2000]
+ http://www.pconline.com/~erc/perlbook.htm
- MacPerl: Power and Ease
- by Vicki Brown and Chris Nandor, foreword by Matthias Neeracher
+ MacPerl: Power and Ease
+ by Vicki Brown and Chris Nandor,
+ with foreword by Matthias Neeracher
+ ISBN 1-881957-32-2 [1st edition May 1998]
+ http://www.macperl.com/ptf_book/
-=item Task-Oriented
+=item Task-Oriented
- *The Perl Cookbook
+ The Perl Cookbook
by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington
with foreword by Larry Wall
+ ISBN 1-56592-243-3 [1st edition August 1998]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cookbook/
- Perl5 Interactive Course [2nd edition]
- by Jon Orwant
-
- *Advanced Perl Programming
- by Sriram Srinivasan
-
- Effective Perl Programming
+ Effective Perl Programming
by Joseph Hall
+ ISBN 0-201-41975-0 [1st edition 1998]
+ http://www.awl.com/
+
=item Special Topics
- *Mastering Regular Expressions
- by Jeffrey Friedl
+ Mastering Regular Expressions
+ by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
+ ISBN 1-56592-257-3 [1st edition January 1997]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/
- How to Set up and Maintain a World Wide Web Site [2nd edition]
+ Network Programming with Perl
by Lincoln Stein
+ ISBN 0-201-61571-1 [1st edition 2001]
+ http://www.awlonline.com/
+
+ Object Oriented Perl
+ Damian Conway
+ with foreword by Randal L. Schwartz
+ ISBN 1884777791 [1st edition August 1999]
+ http://www.manning.com/Conway/
+
+ Data Munging with Perl
+ Dave Cross
+ ISBN 1930110006 [1st edition 2001]
+ http://www.manning.com/cross
- *Learning Perl/Tk
+ Learning Perl/Tk
by Nancy Walsh
+ ISBN 1-56592-314-6 [1st edition January 1999]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperltk/
=back
=head2 Perl in Magazines
-The first and only periodical devoted to All Things Perl, I<The
-Perl Journal> contains tutorials, demonstrations, case studies,
-announcements, contests, and much more. TPJ has columns on web
+The first and only periodical devoted to All Things Perl,
+I<The Perl Journal> contains tutorials, demonstrations, case studies,
+announcements, contests, and much more. I<TPJ> has columns on web
development, databases, Win32 Perl, graphical programming, regular
-expressions, and networking, and sponsors the Obfuscated Perl
-Contest. It is published quarterly under the gentle hand of its
-editor, Jon Orwant. See http://www.tpj.com/ or send mail to
-subscriptions@tpj.com .
-
-Beyond this, magazines that frequently carry high-quality articles
-on Perl are I<Web Techniques> (see http://www.webtechniques.com/),
-I<Performance Computing> (http://www.performance-computing.com/), and Usenix's
-newsletter/magazine to its members, I<login:>, at http://www.usenix.org/.
-Randal's Web Technique's columns are available on the web at
-http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/.
+expressions, and networking, and sponsors the Obfuscated Perl Contest
+and the Perl Poetry Contests. As of mid-2001, the dead tree version
+of TPJ will be published as a quarterly supplement of SysAdmin
+magazine ( http://www.sysadmin.com/ ) For more details on TPJ,
+see http://www.tpj.com/
+
+Beyond this, magazines that frequently carry quality articles on
+Perl are I<Web Techniques> ( http://www.webtechniques.com/ ),
+I<Unix Review> ( http://www.unixreview.com/ ),
+I<Linux Magazine> ( http://www.linuxmagazine.com/ ),
+and Usenix's newsletter/magazine to its members, I<login:>
+( http://www.usenix.org/ )
+
+The Perl columns of Randal L. Schwartz are available on the web at
+http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/ ,
+http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/ , and
+http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/ .
=head2 Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
-To get the best (and possibly cheapest) performance, pick a site from
-the list below and use it to grab the complete list of mirror sites.
+To get the best performance, pick a site from
+the list below and use it to grab the complete list of mirror sites
+which is at /CPAN/MIRRORED.BY or at http://mirror.cpan.org/.
From there you can find the quickest site for you. Remember, the
-following list is I<not> the complete list of CPAN mirrors.
-
- http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local
- http://www.perl.com/CPAN (redirects to an ftp mirror)
- http://www.perl.org/CPAN
+following list is I<not> the complete list of CPAN mirrors
+(the complete list contains 165 sites as of January 2001):
+
+ http://www.cpan.org/
+ http://www.perl.com/CPAN/
+ http://download.sourceforge.net/mirrors/CPAN/
+ ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/plan/perl/CPAN/
+ ftp://ftp.flirble.org/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
+ ftp://ftp.uvsq.fr/pub/perl/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
- http://www.cs.ruu.nl/pub/PERL/CPAN/
- ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/
+ ftp://ftp.dti.ad.jp/pub/lang/CPAN/
+ ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/perl/CPAN/
+ ftp://cpan.if.usp.br/pub/mirror/CPAN/
+
+One may also use xx.cpan.org where "xx" is the 2-letter country code
+for your domain; e.g. Australia would use au.cpan.org.
+[Note: This only applies to countries that host at least one mirror.]
=head2 What mailing lists are there for Perl?
Most of the major modules (Tk, CGI, libwww-perl) have their own
mailing lists. Consult the documentation that came with the module for
-subscription information. Perl Mongers attempts to maintain a
-list of mailing lists at:
+subscription information.
- http://www.perl.org/support/online_support.html#mail
+ http://lists.cpan.org/
=head2 Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc
-Have you tried Deja or AltaVista? Those are the
-best archives. Just look up "*perl*" as a newsgroup.
+The Google search engine now carries archived and searchable newsgroup
+content.
- http://www.deja.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=ALL&format=terse&showsort=date&maxhits=25&subjects=&groups=*perl*&authors=&fromdate=&todate=
+http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&group=comp.lang.perl.misc
-You'll probably want to trim that down a bit, though.
-
-ftp.cis.ufl.edu:/pub/perl/comp.lang.perl.*/monthly has an almost
-complete collection dating back to 12/89 (missing 08/91 through
-12/93). They are kept as one large file for each month.
-
-You'll probably want more a sophisticated query and retrieval mechanism
-than a file listing, preferably one that allows you to retrieve
-articles using a fast-access indices, keyed on at least author, date,
-subject, thread (as in "trn") and probably keywords. The best
-solution the FAQ authors know of is the MH pick command, but it is
-very slow to select on 18000 articles.
-
-If you have, or know where can be found, the missing sections, please
-let perlfaq-suggestions@perl.com know.
+If you have a question, you can be sure someone has already asked the
+same question at some point on c.l.p.m. It requires some time and patience
+to sift through all the content but often you will find the answer you
+seek.
=head2 Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?
-In a real sense, Perl already I<is> commercial software: It has a license
+In a real sense, Perl already I<is> commercial software: it has a license
that you can grab and carefully read to your manager. It is distributed
in releases and comes in well-defined packages. There is a very large
user community and an extensive literature. The comp.lang.perl.*
newsgroups and several of the mailing lists provide free answers to your
questions in near real-time. Perl has traditionally been supported by
-Larry, scores of software designers and developers, and myriads of
+Larry, scores of software designers and developers, and myriad
programmers, all working for free to create a useful thing to make life
better for everyone.
purchase order from a company whom they can sue should anything go awry.
Or maybe they need very serious hand-holding and contractual obligations.
Shrink-wrapped CDs with Perl on them are available from several sources if
-that will help. For example, many Perl books carry a Perl distribution
-on them, as do the O'Reilly Perl Resource Kits (in both the Unix flavor
+that will help. For example, many Perl books include a distribution of Perl,
+as do the O'Reilly Perl Resource Kits (in both the Unix flavor
and in the proprietary Microsoft flavor); the free Unix distributions
also all come with Perl.
-Or you can purchase a real support contract. Although Cygnus historically
-provided this service, they no longer sell support contracts for Perl.
-Instead, the Paul Ingram Group will be taking up the slack through The
-Perl Clinic. The following is a commercial from them:
-
-"Do you need professional support for Perl and/or Oraperl? Do you need
-a support contract with defined levels of service? Do you want to pay
-only for what you need?
-
-"The Paul Ingram Group has provided quality software development and
-support services to some of the world's largest corporations for ten
-years. We are now offering the same quality support services for Perl
-at The Perl Clinic. This service is led by Tim Bunce, an active perl
-porter since 1994 and well known as the author and maintainer of the
-DBI, DBD::Oracle, and Oraperl modules and author/co-maintainer of The
-Perl 5 Module List. We also offer Oracle users support for Perl5
-Oraperl and related modules (which Oracle is planning to ship as part
-of Oracle Web Server 3). 20% of the profit from our Perl support work
-will be donated to The Perl Institute."
-
-For more information, contact The Perl Clinic:
-
- Tel: +44 1483 424424
- Fax: +44 1483 419419
- Web: http://www.perl.co.uk/
- Email: perl-support-info@perl.co.uk or Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk
+Alternatively, you can purchase commercial incidence based support
+through the Perl Clinic. The following is a commercial from them:
+
+"The Perl Clinic is a commercial Perl support service operated by
+ActiveState Tool Corp. and The Ingram Group. The operators have many
+years of in-depth experience with Perl applications and Perl internals
+on a wide range of platforms.
+
+"Through our group of highly experienced and well-trained support engineers,
+we will put our best effort into understanding your problem, providing an
+explanation of the situation, and a recommendation on how to proceed."
+
+Contact The Perl Clinic at
+
+ www.PerlClinic.com
+
+ North America Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8)
+ Tel: 1 604 606-4611 hours 8am-6pm
+ Fax: 1 604 606-4640
+
+ Europe (GMT)
+ Tel: 00 44 1483 862814
+ Fax: 00 44 1483 862801
See also www.perl.com for updates on tutorials, training, and support.
If you are reporting a bug in the perl interpreter or the modules
shipped with Perl, use the I<perlbug> program in the Perl distribution or
-mail your report to perlbug@perl.com .
+mail your report to perlbug@perl.org .
If you are posting a bug with a non-standard port (see the answer to
"What platforms is Perl available for?"), a binary distribution, or a
=head2 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org?
-The perl.com domain is owned by Tom Christiansen, who created it as a
-public service long before perl.org came about. Despite the name, it's a
-pretty non-commercial site meant to be a clearinghouse for information
-about all things Perlian, accepting no paid advertisements, bouncy
-happy GIFs, or silly Java applets on its pages. The Perl Home Page at
-http://www.perl.com/ is currently hosted on a T3 line courtesy of Songline
-Systems, a software-oriented subsidiary of O'Reilly and Associates.
-Other starting points include
-
- http://language.perl.com/
- http://conference.perl.com/
- http://reference.perl.com/
+The Perl Home Page at http://www.perl.com/ is currently hosted by
+The O'Reilly Network, a subsidiary of O'Reilly and Associates.
-Perl Mongers is an advocacy organization for the Perl language. For
-details, see the Perl Mongers web site at http://www.perlmongers.org/.
+Perl Mongers is an advocacy organization for the Perl language which
+maintains the web site http://www.perl.org/ as a general advocacy
+site for the Perl language.
Perl Mongers uses the pm.org domain for services related to Perl user
-groups. See the Perl user group web site at http://www.pm.org/ for more
-information about joining, starting, or requesting services for a Perl
-user group.
+groups, including the hosting of mailing lists and web sites. See the
+Perl user group web site at http://www.pm.org/ for more information about
+joining, starting, or requesting services for a Perl user group.
-Perl Mongers also maintains the perl.org domain to provide general
+Perl Mongers also maintain the perl.org domain to provide general
support services to the Perl community, including the hosting of mailing
lists, web sites, and other services. The web site
http://www.perl.org/ is a general advocacy site for the Perl language,
and there are many other sub-domains for special topics, such as
- http://history.perl.org/
http://bugs.perl.org/
- http://www.news.perl.org/
+ http://history.perl.org/
+ http://lists.perl.org/
+ http://news.perl.org/
+ http://use.perl.org/
=head1 AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-Copyright (c) 1997-1999 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.
+Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.
All rights reserved.
-When included as an integrated part of the Standard Distribution
-of Perl or of its documentation (printed or otherwise), this works is
-covered under Perl's Artistic License. For separate distributions of
-all or part of this FAQ outside of that, see L<perlfaq>.
+This documentation is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+under the same terms as Perl itself.
Irrespective of its distribution, all code examples here are in the public
domain. You are permitted and encouraged to use this code and any
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