A comprehensive Perl Tutorial, providing step by step examples for beginners. Includes information on setting up a Perl development environment, basic data types, conditional branching, common algorithms and Perl resources.
The Gang-of-Four Design Patterns book had a huge impact on programming methodologies in the Java and C++ communities, but what do Design Patterns have to say to Perl programmers? Phil Crow examines how some popular patterns fit in to Perl programming.