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# The Perl Programming Language

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Perl 5 is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 23 years of development. More about why we love Perl...

#### Learning Perl 5 With free online books, over 23,500 extension modules, and a large developer community, there are many ways to learn Perl 5. | #### The Perl Community Perl has an active world wide community with over 300 local groups, mailing lists and support/discussion websites.
#### Documentation Core documentation, FAQs and translations. | #### Contribute to Perl Perl is being actively developed. There are many ways to get involved.
#### CPAN The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) has over 18,000 open source modules available for download. | #### Events and Conferences Conferences, social and technical events around the world offer lots of networking and learning opportunities.
#### Perl 6 Perl 6 is a sister language, part of the Perl family. Perl 6 is not production ready yet, you can get involved with its development though. | #### 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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Perl -- It's like Java, only it lets you deliver on time and under budget.

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