This is not your grandfather's Perl
That Perl interpreter you have on your Linux machine? Update it and check out the present.
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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.