PERL¶
Per was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions. The latest major stable revision is 5.16, released in May 2012. Perl 6 is a complete redesign of the language, announced in 2000 and still under active development as of 2012s.
– Wikipedia 2013-02-18
API¶
The perl api is avaible online [1]. It has also a command line tool called perldoc
[1] | http://perldoc.perl.org/ |
Packages/Modules¶
Packages, modules or distributions can be administrated with the package manager: cpan
To install a new packages:
cpan $packagename$
Or entering in the interactive mode:
cpan
i $pacakgename$
Cheats¶
- http://perldoc.perl.org/perlcheat.html
- More visual (but less complete): http://www.cheatography.com/mishin/cheat-sheets/perlcheat/