This site is about programming in general, however, as anybody else in the world, the creators of the site have their own preferences as well; that is why the most of things one can find here are related to Perl programming language. Nothing surprising, this one fits best to create very many things while processing huge arrays of text (and not only ASCII-like) data or developing distributed inter|intra|extra[net] client-server applications for many uses in the world; or, the last, but not the least, while doing routine job to administer a system.

Despite the constant growth of other languages (in number and quality) like C, Ruby, .Net, C#, Java and PHP, Perl remains the very best when it comes to using, say, regular expressions or just writing 'dirty' one-liners to cover a gap in a day to day service. And this does not affect much its great potential to do a good job as a Camel (nothing in common with JT Intl.), which as everyone knows has a better stamina in comparison with a 'good working horse'.

The reader should not be tricked with the very basic section titles like 'a scalar', 'an array' and so on, in everyday life anybody, who is taking programming seriously and not as an occasional occupation of his, faces the problems that depends largely on a very good understanding of the basics of the programming language, its cornerstones one can read about in any manual for the beginners. It happens often when the best solution of an 'unsolvable' problem is found with features that the basic structures and components of the language can offer, not to mention how much they are optimized for some particular purposes. Here and again, the overall motto is: "KeepItSimpleStupid".

It is necessary to note nevertheless that most of the said here is not a mere narration of the Perl pod nor a compilation of a book, but a kind of a personal experience that might be useful; however, there's some logic in general layout of the material given here as well. The Perl community unlike many other languages' has produced a wide majority of web-sites and may be this is the reason why Perl is still so popular. The authors of this particular Perl place really enjoy using Perl and would like to contribute to the Open Source Treasury, too.

Of course, if the reader finds something to correct or advise or add, he is the most welcome to do that any time here...

FYI: (%perldoc) perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language