Free perl software for linux

Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language. Perl project is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors and is widely used to program web applications of all needs.
Main features:
- Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language.
- It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors.
- Perl is Open Source software, licensed under its Artistic License, or the GNU General Public License.
- Perl was created by Larry Wall.
- Perl 1.0 was released to usenets alt.comp.sources in 1987
- PC Magazine named Perl a finalist for its 1998 Technical Excellence Award in the Development Tool category.
- Perl is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary.
- Perl takes the best features from other languages, such as C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC, among others.
- Perls database integration interface (DBI) supports third-party databases including Oracle, Sybase, Postgres, MySQL and others.
- Perl works with HTML, XML, and other mark-up languages.
- Perl supports Unicode.
- Perl is Y2K compliant.
- Perl supports both procedural and object-oriented programming.
- Perl interfaces with external C/C++ libraries through XS or SWIG.
- Perl is extensible. There are over 500 third party modules available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN).
- The Perl interpreter can be embedded into other systems.
- Perl is the most popular web programming language due to its text manipulation capabilities and rapid development cycle.
- Perl is widely known as "the duct-tape of the Internet".
- Perls CGI.pm module, part of Perls standard distribution, makes handling HTML forms simple.
- Perl can handle encrypted Web data, including e-commerce transactions.
- Perl can be embedded into web servers to speed up processing by as much as 2000%.
- mod_perl allows the Apache web server to embed a Perl interpreter.
- Perls DBI package makes web-database integration easy.

gtk2-perl project is the collective name for a set of perl bindings for Gtk+ 2.x and various related libraries. These modules make it easy to write Gtk and Gnome applications using a natural, perlish, object-oriented syntax.

This set of extension modules gives the Perl developer full access to the gtk+ widget set and several gnome libraries in a perlish, object-oriented way.

You can create new widgets and non-gui objects, and do just about anything you can do in C. We also include POD for every object (installed as manpages), and provide tools for binding other GObject-based libraries to Perl.

Perl Chat is a project that consists of a client and a server, both written in perl.

The goal of this project is to create a chat server that can be used on smaller networks such as a college campus or a business network.

Both the client and the server are written in Perl, and the client uses the Tk module to generate its GUI.

Installation:

First of all you need a working version of Perl. Preferably 5.6 but 5.005X should also work fine. For versions of Perl Chat < 0.1.0 you will need to compile Perl with Threads. (Keep in mind that Threads are still experimental) I designed this program with Perl 5.6.0 which can be found HERE.

You will need to read the installation instructions to compile it with Threads. I advise anyone who is doing this to install this new version of perl into /usr/local/ so as to not overwrite your old perl. Then by changing the first line of the script you can toggle between the different installs of perl.

sudoku-perl is a Sudoku player that offers a board, assistance, and solving using a (text based) ANSI screen. sudoku-perl offers a simple alphanumeric board display that supports the 9x9 matrix.

It does not generate a Sudoku puzzle; for this, the user must look on the Internet, newspapers, Sudoku booklets, etc. and take over the sudoku initial setting from there.

However, it assists the user in solving the Sudoku by providing some functions, up to and including solving the Sudoku from the current board setting.

libwww-perl distribution is a collection of Perl modules, which provides a simple and consistent programming interface (API) to the WWW (World-Wide Web).
The main focus of the library is to provide classes and functions that allow you to write WWW clients, thus libwww-perl is said to be a WWW client library. The library also contains modules that are of more general use.
Enhancements:
Simplified the Makefile.PL:
- the scripts are not longer *.PL files
- dont try to make symlinks for GET, HEAD, POST as that has not worked for a long time
- the GET, HEAD, POST aliases for lwp-request should now work on Windows.
HTTP::Cookies:
- added clear_temporary_cookies method; patch by Mike Schilli.
- trailing space in old cookie parameters not ignored; patch by Ivan Panchenko
- protect against $SIG{__DIE__} handlers; patch by Adam Newby.
LWP::Authen::Digest:
- abort digest auth session if we fail repeatedly with the same username/password.
- MacOS portability patches to the test suite by Chris Nandor.

For some problems, particularly in the presentation layer, thinking of the solution as a webpage that can run perl is more natural than thinking of it as a perl script that can print a webpage.

It's been done before, but this module is simple. The source code is compact: one file and less than 2k of code. Simply put: if you can do it in Perl, you can do it in Markup:Perl, only without all the print statements, heredocs and quotation marks.

Requirements:

• Perl

libintl-perl is a library that supports message translation for Perl, written in pure Perl (version 5.004 or better). A faster C version is also built and installed if the system fulfills all requirements.

Its interface is very similar to the gettext family of functions in C, and it uses the same file formats as GNU gettext, making it possible to use all tools available for gettext itself and to seamlessly integrate internationalized Perl code into mixed-language projects. An alternative library with a similar purpose is available as Locale::MakeText.

The core of the library is the module Locale::gettext_pp. It is a pure Perl re-implementation of the module Locale::gettext available on CPAN. However, the XS version Locale::gettext lacks some functions (notably plural handling and output conversion) that are already
present in Locale::gettext_pp. Locale::gettext_pp provides the internationalization functions that are available in your system library (libc) or additional C libraries (for example libintl in the case of GNU gettext).

The class Locale::Messages is an additional abstraction layer that is prepared for dynamic switching between different gettext implementations (for example Locale::gettext_pp and Locale::gettext). It provides basically the same interface as Locale::gettext_pp but in an
implementation-independent manner.

The module Locale::TextDomain is the only module that you should actually use in your software. It represents the message translation system for a particular text domain (a text domain is a unique identifier for your software package), makes use of Locale::Messages
for message translation and catalog location, and it provides additional utility functions, for example common shortcut names for i18n routines, tied hashes for hash-like lookups into the translation database, and finally an interpolation mechanism suitable for
internationalized messages.

The package also contains a charset conversion library Locale::Recode. This library is used internally by Locale::gettext_pp to allow on-the-fly charset conversion between the charset in a message catalog and the preferred (end) user charset. Its main advantage about the Encode package available for recent Perl versions is its portability, since it does not require the Unicode capabilities of Perl that were introduced with Perl 5.6. It fully supports UTF-8 with every Perl version and a wealth of common 8 bit encodings. If you have to do charset conversion with older Perl versions, then Locale::Recode may be worth a try although it is really only a helper library, not intended as a competitor to Encode.