Perl: Getting Started

Here is the good link for Perl beginners.

http://www.cgi101.com/book/ch1/text.html

 Perl is a simple, easy to learn language, yet powerful enough to accomplish very difficult and complex tasks. It is widely available, and is probably already installed on your Unix server. You don't need to compile your Perl programs; you simply write your code, save the file, and run it (or have the web server run it). The program itself is a simple text file; the Perl interpreter does all the work. The advantage to this is you can move your program with little or no changes to any machine with a Perl interpreter. The disadvantage is you won't discover any bugs in your program until you run it..............