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/Communities and Development Sites
Communities and Development Sites
Explore community and development sites, events, and IRC channels dedicated to Perl.
Perl’s greatest accomplishment is the huge number of reusable libraries it has available. Larry Wall explicitly encouraged the Perl community to create and maintain their own extensions to solve every problem imaginable without fragmenting the language into incompatible pidgins. It worked.
That accomplishment was almost as important as the growth of a community around Perl. People write libraries. People build on the work of other people. People make the community worth joining and preserving and expanding.
The Perl community welcomes willing participants at all levels, from novices to the developers of Perl itself. Take advantage of the knowledge and experience and code of countless other programmers. It’ll make you a better programmer.
Community sites
There are several community sites dedicated to Perl that you should know about.
Perl’s home page links to documentation, ...