Perl

 Larry Wall's Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a language for easily manipulating text, files, and processes. It provides a more concise and readable way to do many jobs that were formerly accomplished (with difficulty) by programming in the C language or one of the Unix shells.

Documentation:

  

• Perl Manual - see also at CPAN ;

• The book ``Programming Perl'', Wall et al. [1996], constitutes the authoritative guide to using Perl and ``Learning Perl'', Schwartz and Christiansen [1997], is a useful introductory text.
  

Newsgroups:

  

• comp.lang.perl.announce
• comp.lang.perl.misc
• comp.lang.perl.modules
• comp.lang.perl.tk
  

Useful Links:

  

• CPAN , the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network;

• CPAN Perl Scripts Repository ;

• Perl Meta-FAQ ;

• Perl Oasis from LEO .