Perl FAQs

Perl Question and Answer Center

A small Perl FAQ.

Perl FAQ

Multi-part Perl FAQ.

Perl for Win32

Perl faq.

Perl/Tk FAQ

This document concerns itself with the Perl/Tk programming language (or, if you prefer, the Tk extension to Perl). Please be aware that this is not the Perl FAQ, this is not the Tcl FAQ, nor is this the Tcl/Tk FAQ.

irt.org

CGI & Perl FAQ Knowledge Base

CPAN Frequently Asked Questions

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Perl Books

Perl 5 by Example

Online Perl Book. 22 chapters with appendixes.

Beginning Perl

Very complete (and completely free) Perl Beginners book, both HTML and downloadable (PDF).

Practical mod_perl

This free perl book is available in html or pdf versions, so you can view the perl book online or download this free book.

Picking Up Perl, Edition 0.12

Picking Up Perl is a freely redistributable tutorial book on Perl that can be downloaded in pdf, postscript, or textinfo format. It can also be viewed online in html format, either as one large file or as separate files for each chapter.

Extreme Perl

Extreme Perl is a book about Extreme Programming using the programming language Perl. This free Perl ebook is available in HTML, PDF, or A4 PDF.

Learning Perl the Hard Way

Learning Perl the Hard Way is a free book available under the GNU Free Documentation License. This free perl ebook can be downloaded in pdf or gzipped postscript format.

Web Client Programming with Perl

Free Online Perl Book

The Perl Reference Guide

The guide contains a concise description of all Perl 5 statements, functions, variables and lots of other useful information.

Perl Reference Guide & Perl Pocket Reference (PDF Link)

Short Perl refernce book in pdf form.

CGI Programming on the World Wide Web

This is an out of print book from 1996 that is available from Oreilly.

Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics (Sample Chapter)

GenBank (Genetic Sequence Data Bank) is a rapidly growing international repository of known genetic sequences from a variety of organisms. Its use is central to modern biology and to bioinformatics.

CGI Programming with Perl, 2nd Edition (Sample Chapter)

Security.

Advanced Perl Programming (Sample Chapter)

Chapter 1: Data References and Anonymous Storage

Programming Web Services with Perl (Sample Chapter)

One chapter on Soap.

Oreilly Sample Chapters

Quite a few sample chapters from perl books are indexed here (some have already been linked to individually).

Perl Articles

What Is Perl 6

Perl article.

Perl Primer

A basic Perl/CGI article that is essentially Hello World done in Perl.

Perl Practicum

A collection of articles on Perl.

Sorting Techniques

This article is about teaching the novice programmer how to sort lists of things, while showing to the more experienced folks certain techniques and ideas that could be new to them if they are migrating from a different language

writing COM components in Perl

Perl article.

intro to Perl on Windows

Using Perl on windows article.

Perl, Sockets and TCP/IP Networking

An oversimplified introduction to sockets.

A Conversation with Larry Wall

The creator of Perl talks about language design and Perl.

Multiplexing filehandles with select() in perl.

Short Perl article.

CGI Resources

CGI Programming 101

The first six chapters from a book on CGI programming are available for free online or in .pdf format. Sample chapters cover getting started (writing scripts, uploading, etc.), Perl Variables, CGI Environment Variables, Processing Forms, Advanced Forms, and Reading & Writing Data Files. Source code from remaining chapters is also available.

CGI for the Total Non-Programmer

Short tutorial on the basics of creating CGIs with Perl on a Unix platform and includes a template for running scripts on a pc or mac. Covers the basics of Perl, hit counting, and guestbooks. The main page says processing passwords is covered, but I didn't see it when I was there.

How CGI Scripting Works

A basic introduction to CGI.

CGI Tutorial

A short tutorial from the University of Leeds that explains CGI scripts, demonstrates a simple Perl script, CGI environment variables and forms. Appears to be all Perl and includes a few exercises.

The CGI Bin

5 tutorials on CGI form handling, hit counting, cookies and Server Side Includes.

WDVL Web Programming Tutorial

Comprehensive site from the Wed Developers Virtual Library that covers CGI programming with Perl. This is essentially a four day online course on web programming and day two focuses on CGI and Perl with topics too numerous to list. Day one has information about setting up forms and the last two days cover java & applets.

A guide to HTML and CGI scripts

This site has some basic HTML stuff and examples of forms as well as an example of calling a CGI script file, decoding data sent to a CGI script and a script to record users to a web page. All the scripts appear to be in C++.

The Most Simple Intro to CGI

This site has an explanation of how CGI works illustrated with some cute graphics and has an example first script in Perl that processes form data and writes the form input back to the browser.

CGI Made Really Easy

The title is a little optimistic, but this site includes a brief introduction has some sample scripts for "Hello World" and echoing form input in both Perl and C. Also a mailer script in Perl and some security inforomation and useful CGI environmental variables on the footnotes page that you can find from the links at the bottom of the main page.

The Common Gateway Interface

This site from NCSA has CGI documentation, examles of form handling in both C and Perl and an ftp archive of CGI programs.

CGI Script Installation Tutorial

An article on CGI installation that is a short tutorial for getting your scripts up and running on the server.

The CGI Directory:

This is an extensive CGI directory with over a thousand scripts and a tutorials sections for beginner and advanced as well as links to SSI (Server Side Includes) tutorials. The focus appears to be on Perl, naturally enough, but I only had time to sample a few of the many scripts.

CGI City

This site features an online Perl reference, web development articles, apache & MySQL installation instructions and a series of "How Do I" articles that are short how-to pages with example code in Perl "written with the beginner in mind."

CGI Programming FAQ

Frequently asked CGI questions.

CGI Programming on the World Wide Web

This book is out of print, but it has been made available online through the O'Reilly Open Books Project.

CGI Programming FAQ

CGI Programming FAQ (mirror of above)

CGI Forum

Free registration required to post.

Tek-Tips CGI Forum

CGI forum.

Lua Tutorials

Lua Tutorial

This tutorial is aimed at all newcomers to the language Lua

Tutorial Directory

This is a directory of lua tutorials at the main lua site. Many lua topics including libraries and advanced concepts are covered.

Lua Tutorials

There are three short Lua tutorials linked from this page.

Lua Tutorial

This is a simple tutorial on how to get Lua running, in the absence of proper documentation for the ScriptEngine module. This tutorial uses the ScriptEngine module for Lua work.

Lua Tools and Source

LuaEdit

LuaEdit is an IDE/Debugger/Script Editor designed for the version 5.0 of Lua. It features syntax highlighting, completion proposal list, parameter proposition engine, advance breakpoint management (including condition system on breakpoints and hit count), function listing, global and local variables listing, watches, project oriented management, etc.

Lua Source Code

Lua is distributed in source code at several sites. Lua is freely available and can be used for both academic and commercial purposes at absolutely no cost. All released versions are available for download.

LuaIDE

This is an integrated development environment for Lua on Windows.

LuaEclipse

LuaEclipse is a Lua IDE based on the Eclipse Platform. It is built as a plugin and extends Eclipse in several ways.

Exp Lua

ExpLua is both a code comment format and a tool for extracting said comments and exporting HTML, LaTeX, and whatnot. It is freely available for use under the same License as the Lua project, with the usual disclaimers.

Sample Code

This page contains links to pages with sample code which is organized into categories for the different versions of Lua.

Libraries and tools for Lua

A couple of tools and a number of lua libraries that are in the public domain.

ChunkBake

ChunkBake is a Lua 5 binary chunk assembler written entirely in Lua, with output customizable for different platforms.

Lua FAQ

Lua Faq

Lua Faq

Lua Faq

This document contains answers to some Frequently Asked Questions about Lua.

Lua Forums

Lua Forum

Lua Forum

Lua Books

Programming in Lua

This is an online version of the Lua book.

Lua Documentation

The is the official definition of the Lua language.

Lua 5 Quick Reference

A Lua 5 Quick Reference available in pdf and postscript formats.

A No-Frills Introduction to Lua 5.1 VM Instructions

A basic guide to all the instructions of the Lua 5.1 virtual machine (PDF)

Lua Articles

Lua Wiki Entry

Wikipedia article about Lua

Building Lua

Here are some notes on building Lua on various platforms, including links to useful build packages.

SPE paper

This paper describes Lua, a language for extending applications.

The Implementation of Lua 5.0

This paper discusses the main novelties of the implementation of Lua 5.0: its registerbased virtual machine, the new algorithm for optimizing tables used as arrays, the implementation of closures, and the addition of coroutines.

The Evolution of Lua

Lua article.

Papers and theses

This is an incomplete list of academic publications related to Lua maintained at the official Lua site.

Introducing Lua

Introductory Lua article.

The Evolution of an Extension Language: A History of Lua

This paper describes the trajectory of Lua, from its creation as an in-house language for two specific projects, until Lua 4.0, released in November 2000. It discusses the evolution of some of its concepts and the main landmarks in its implementation

Lua Versus Python

Lua article.

Lua Versus Ruby

Lua article.

Lua: an Extensible Embedded Language

Reprint from Dr. Dobb's Journal 21 #12 (Dec 1996) 26-33.

Lua Versus Unreal Script

Lua article.

Embedding a scripting language inside your C/C++ code

Lua article with code examples.

Lua Paper

Reprint from Proceedings of XXI Brazilian Seminar on Software and Hardware.

An Introduction to Lua

This article is a short tutorial on Lua.

Extending Lua: Making your own libraries

Lua article.

Embedding Lua in C: Using Lua from inside C

Lua article.

Logo Interpreters

Turtle Tracks

Turtle Tracks is a modern Logo interpreter and runtime environment written entirely in Java. It is not a direct port of an existing interpreter, but written from the ground up specifically for Java, and designed to take advantage of the strengths of Java as a platform. Turtle Tracks is platform-independent and Internet-ready, and supports numerous advanced features such as multithreading and networking.

Berkeley Logo

Berkeley Logo is a freeware interpreter complete with c source code written by Brian Harvey. His site also has some sample chapter from Logo books that he wrote.

MSWLogo

http://www.softronix.com/logo.html

TKTSLogo

TKTSLogo is a "Traditional" Logo interpreter. The beginner will want to start with controlling the turtle whereas the expert can work happily without any graphics at all. For Windows 98, 98se, ME, 2000 and XP.