This is not your grandfather's Perl
That Perl interpreter you have on your Linux machine? Update it and check out the present.
Dave Cross has been writing Perl since the last millennium and writing about Perl for almost as long. He's the author of "Data Munging with Perl" and "Perl Taster" and a co-author of "Perl Template Toolkit". He's been heavily involved in the Perl community too - having founded the London Perl Mongers in 1998. He's a regular speaker at Perl conferences. When not writing code, he can usually be found at a gig or researching his genealogy.
That Perl interpreter you have on your Linux machine? Update it and check out the present.