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Thursday, April 06, 2006

What if I have to ask some Questions Frequently about Perl ?

There exists many a excellent FAQ’s (Frequently Asked Question’s) catering to those creepy doubts and problems arising in the mind of a Perl developer. These FAQ’s are brilliant repositories of Perl information. These collections can give answer to almost any kind of question that a perl programmer can have like “How do I install Perl”, “How do I parse email header using Perl”, "How to construct some Gene sequence using Perl",“How to get even with my neighbour using Perl” etc ;-)

Note : Who know’s, in the near future may be there will be a hand held RPG with a nuclear payload which can be customized using Perl, and then that last question will be surely found on the FAQ.

So how to access the FAQ’s

The first stop for finding answers related your Perl musings will be the PerlFaq
. As of this blogging, there were 10 separate and extensive FAQ’s categorized on different Perl related topics at this collection. This is a very comprehensive bunch of Perl answers and is the fruit of the nice efforts of Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.

Some other good FAQ’s related to Perl which can be of nice assistance to a developer are :

Perl, Unicode and i18N FAQ
- An FAQ for those developers who are into Perl, Unicode and Internationalization activities. James, Silicon Valley Perl Mongers, ex-Netscape and Yahoo contractor maintains this FAQ.

Perl5 Database Interface FAQ - by Alligator Descartes. It can be a starting point for Database programming using Perl.

OraPerl FAQ - An Faq on Perl database programming with Oracle. Oraperl is used to access Oracle from Perl programs. These day's the DBI database driver is used in place of this driver by most developers.

Perl/Tk FAQ - by Cameron Laird . A good place to find answers on Perl/Tk realted questions.

MacPerl FAQ - maintained by Vicki Brown, Rich Morin and others of MacPerl community. This is a resource for Perl developers doing their work on the Macintosh.


Talking about FAQ’s have made me a lot weary, so gotta go and have a cup of Cappuccino. We will meet soon the next time.

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