... going to worry about Perl 6, though.What’s Perl Really Good For? Perl is good for quick-and-dirty programs that you whip up in three minutes. Perl isalso good for long-and-extensive programs ... CPAN?CPAN is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, your one-stop shop for Perl. It hasthe source code for Perl itself, ready-to-install ports of Perl to all sorts of non-Unixsystems,‡ examples, ... | ixPrefaceWelcome to the fifth edition of Learning Perl, updated for Perl 5.10 and its latest fea-tures. This book is good even if you are still using Perl 5.6 (although, it’s been a longtime...