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Table of Contents

• Main Perl Resources
• Perl Culture
• Prominent Perl People
• More Links
  
  • The Google Directory Perl Category
  • DMoz' Perl Category
  • Yahoo's Perl Category

Main Perl Resources

• Perl.com - O'Reilly's Perl Portal with many interesting articles, some sections and links.
• use Perl; - a news site dedicated to Perl , Slashdot-style. (but with much fewer comment and such of higher signal-to-noise ratio). Visit it to keep up to date with what's going on in Perl.
• Perl.org - a Perl portal by the Perl Mongers Organization and the Perl Foundation.
• Perl Mongers - The "Perl Mongers" Perl user-groups world-wide.
• CPAN - The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - Contains a lot of modules for doing practically anything with Perl. Why re-invent the wheel when so many different types of them are available for free. Note that Perl distributions on various systems contains an easy to use interface to install modules from it, including dependencies.
• Perl Buzz - a news feed about Perl with several sections, that aims to cover "the newest and best of the Perl world".

Perl Culture

• Perl Humor - a list of links to Perl humor.
• Perl Poetry - Poems that are valid Perl programs.
• Perl Golf - competitions to find out the shortest Perl programs to achieve a certain task. Looking at the winning entries and analyzing them can actually teach you a lot about built-in Perl features. (some of them relatively obscure).
• The Perl Quiz of the Week - a quiz to write a Perl program by Mark Jason Dominus.
• Obfuscated Perl Code - even worse than usual.
• "Just another Perl hacker" (JAPHs) - way to print the phrase in Perl in as imaginative a way as possible.

Prominent Perl People

• Larry Wall - the father of Perl. A very colourful, amusing and interesting guy, who is also a competent UNIX hacker (invented patch, rn and other utilities), and a linguist by training.
• Tom Christiansen - Authored Several books and has been hacking with Perl and on Perl since its early beginning. Wrote several FAQs and essays on Perl.
• Mark Jason Dominus - Runs a web-site that contains a lot of random information and code about Perl.
• Damian Conway - a computer science academic, who is obsessed with Perl. Wrote a book and some modules (including one to write Perl in Latin - ;-)), and is considered one of the primary experts on Object-Oriented Programming in Perl. Now co-heads the Perl 6 effort.
• Randal L. Schwartz - co-authored some of Perl's most important books and one of the top experts on Perl on the planet.
• Jarkko Hietaniemi - the CPAN master librarian, a contributor to the core Perl distribution and external modules, and an all-around nice guy.

More Links

The Google Directory Perl Category

a comprehensive hierarchy of links.

DMoz' Perl Category

The source of the above, which is more up-to-date, but is slower and does not include Googlisms.

Yahoo's Perl Category

The Yahoo Directory used to be quite a useful resource before DMoz and its mirrors (like the Google Directory) came along. Now it's relatively unmaintained, but may still contain some useful links.