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That's why we love Perl

Flexible & Powerful

Perl is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 38 years of development.

Learning

With free online books, over 42,000 extension modules, and a large developer community, there are many ways to learn Perl.

Community

Perl has an active world wide community with over 230 local groups, mailing lists and support/discussion websites.

Docs

Core documentation, FAQs and translations.

Contribute

Perl is being actively developed. There are many ways to get involved

CPAN

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) has over 42,000 open source distributions available for download.

Events

Events, conferences, social and technical events around the world offer lots of networking and learning opportunities.

Raku

Raku (formerly known as Perl 6) is a sister language, part of the Perl family, not intended as a replacement for Perl, but as its own thing - libraries exist to allow you to call Perl code from Raku programs and vice versa.

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The Perl Foundation

The Perl Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl programming language through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code.

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