Perl is a 'Practical Extraction and Report Language' freely available for Unix, MVS, VMS, MS/DOS, Macintosh, OS/2, Amiga, and other operating systems. Perl has powerful text-manipulation functions. It eclectically combines features and purposes of many command languages. Perl has enjoyed recent popularity for programming World Wide Web electronic forms and generally as glue and gateway between systems, databases, and users.

Practical mod_perl Programming

When the World Wide Web was born, there was only one web server and one web client. The httpd web server was developed by the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche Nucléaires (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. httpd has since become the generic name of the binary executable of many web servers. When CERN stopped funding the development of httpd, it was taken over by the Software Development Group of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The NCSA also produced Mosaic, the first web browser, whose developers later went on to write the Netscape client.

Perl 5 by Example

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Using Perl for Web Programming

Before you get into the nitty-gritty of using Perl on World Wide Web servers, you need to take some time to look at Perl itself.

Perl Tutorial

n your first chapters of teaching yourself Perl, you'll learn enough of the basics to write many useful Perl programs.