Perl Basics
From Mark Lewin, former About.com Guide
Just getting started with Perl? Not even sure where to start? We'll walk you through the absolute basics of this, the Swiss Army knife of the web.
Introducing Perl
Perl, or Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, is an interpreted programming language with a huge number of uses on the web and elsewhere.
Get Started
If you know you want to learn Perl -- but don't know really anything else about it -- here's how to get it installed and write your very first programs.