=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: 1.13 $, $Date: 2002/04/26 16:56:35 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
commercial database interfaces to keyboard/screen control to web
walking and CGI scripts. The master web site for CPAN is
http://www.cpan.org/ and there is the CPAN Multiplexer at
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/CPAN.html which will choose a mirror near you
+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
See http://www.cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html or
http://search.cpan.org/ for a more complete list of modules by category.
+CPAN is not affiliated with O'Reilly and Associates.
=head2 Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi Writing CGI scripts for the Web.
-There is also Usenet gateway to the mailing list used by the crack
-Perl development team (perl5-porters) at
-news://news.perl.com/perl.porters-gw/ .
+There is also a Usenet gateway to Perl mailing lists sponsored by perl.org at
+nntp://nntp.perl.org , a web interface to the same lists at
+http://nntp.perl.org/group/ and these lists are also available under the
+C<perl.*> hierarchy at http://groups.google.com . Other groups are listed at
+http://lists.perl.org/ ( also known as http://lists.cpan.org/ ).
+
+A nice place to ask questions is the PerlMonks site, http://www.perlmonks.org/
+
+Note that none of the above are supposed to write your code for you:
+asking questions about particular problems or general advice is fine,
+but asking someone to write your code for free is not very cool.
=head2 Where should I post source code?
feel free to cross-post to comp.lang.perl.misc. If you want to cross-post
to alt.sources, please make sure it follows their posting standards,
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.
+see their FAQ ( http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-sources-intro/ ) for details.
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.
+( http://www.google.com ), Google's usenet search interface
+( http://groups.google.com ), and CPAN Search ( http://search.cpan.org ).
+This is faster and more productive than just posting a request.
=head2 Perl Books
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
+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.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/
Perl 5 Pocket Reference
- by Johan Vromans
+ by Johan Vromans
ISBN 0-596-00032-4 [3rd edition May 2000]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlpr3/
Perl in a Nutshell
- by Ellen Siever, Stephan Spainhour, and Nathan Patwardhan
+ by Ellen Siever, Stephan Spainhour, and Nathan Patwardhan
ISBN 1-56592-286-7 [1st edition December 1998]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlnut/
Elements of Programming with Perl
by Andrew L. Johnson
- ISBN 1884777805 [1st edition October 1999]
+ ISBN 1-884777-80-5 [1st edition October 1999]
http://www.manning.com/Johnson/
Learning Perl
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)
+ 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 Foster-Johnson
Object Oriented Perl
Damian Conway
with foreword by Randal L. Schwartz
- ISBN 1884777791 [1st edition August 1999]
+ ISBN 1-884777-79-1 [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
+ Dave Cross
+ ISBN 1-930110-00-6 [1st edition 2001]
+ http://www.manning.com/cross
- Learning Perl/Tk
- by Nancy Walsh
- ISBN 1-56592-314-6 [1st edition January 1999]
- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperltk/
+ Mastering Perl/Tk
+ by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh
+ ISBN 1-56592-716-8 [1st edition January 2002]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastperltk/
=back
=head2 Perl in Magazines
-The first and only periodical devoted to All Things Perl,
+The first (and for a long time, 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
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,
+magazine ( http://www.sysadminmag.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/ ),
+Perl are I<The Perl Review> ( http://www.theperlreview.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:>
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/.
+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
(the complete list contains 165 sites as of January 2001):
ftp://ftp.uvsq.fr/pub/perl/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/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
mailing lists. Consult the documentation that came with the module for
subscription information.
- http://lists.cpan.org/
+A comprehensive list of Perl related mailing lists can be found at:
+
+ http://lists.cpan.org/
+
+( also visible as http://lists.perl.org/ )
=head2 Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc
The Google search engine now carries archived and searchable newsgroup
content.
-http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&group=comp.lang.perl.misc
+http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.perl.misc
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
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.
Read the perlbug(1) man page (perl5.004 or later) for more information.
-=head2 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org?
+=head2 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org?
The Perl Home Page at http://www.perl.com/ is currently hosted by
The O'Reilly Network, a subsidiary of O'Reilly and Associates.
http://bugs.perl.org/
http://history.perl.org/
http://lists.perl.org/
- http://news.perl.org/
http://use.perl.org/
+http://www.cpan.org/ is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network,
+a replicated worlwide repository of Perl software, see
+the I<What is CPAN?> question earlier in this document.
+
=head1 AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.