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Beginners Guide to CGI in Perl
Perl / perl Tools

Nathan Poole

Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) is probably the most widely used programming language for CGI. To start you off learning Perl, I feel obligated to give credit where credit is due. First off, to Larry Wall for creating Perl itself. Secondly, thanks must be given out to Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Christiansen (in no particular order!) for writing some of the best Perl documentation ever published. You can always see their work at the bottom of this page in the Books Index section. - Tools First off, to program in Perl I suppose it would be a smart idea to download Perl itself. If you're running Windows95/98/NT you run Perl through MS-DOS. First, for Win32 users, click the link below to download Perl for Win32 by ActiveState.

Pw32i316.exe (1,511 KB) (Perl for Win32 Intel/x86 binary)

After you've download the preceeding file, extract it on your machine. It creates the directory C:Perl and that's all there is to it. You've now installed Perl. You'll need to reboot your machine.

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