Perl 5 White Papers

White papers

These short articles provide an overview for each topic. They are intended to help you in understanding why modern Perl is a good tool for many different types of project and also to provide pointers for those starting out in Perl.

• Perl database ORM - Making database queries easy and code clean
• Perl web framework - Create the website your company needs
• Object oriented Perl - Clear object syntax with lots of power when you need it
• Perl profiling - Speeding up code with a feature-rich code profiler
• Perl testing - Automated tests for better quality code
• Perl Plack/PSGI - Simple and flexible web development
• Perl IPv6 - Perl and IPv6 Networks
• CPAN - complete, mature ecosystem for Perl developers

Contribute

White Papers which we are looking for someone to write:

• Perl::Critic - "quality" for Perl
• Quality - Devel::Cover, Perl::Critic, PerlTidy
• Memcached - caching demon
• Event-driven Programming
• GUI development

Contact leo [at] perl.org if you are interested in contributing