Perl is an (originally) UNIX scripting language written by Larry Wall. There are only two types of people where Perl is concerned, People who have never used it, and Perl Evangelists. The www.perl.com site is maintained by the High Priest of Perl, Tom Christiansen. There are versions of Perl out now for almost any platform. It is the language in widest use on the Web (Ever wonder what most CGI scripts are written in?) I'm a Perl Evangelist, and so far I have converted quite a number of people. Try it.
I have a number of perl scripts I wrote over the years, and as I get them sorted out, I will add them to this page for downloading. The most notable one is my perl based user authentication and maintenance, which actually got published in a book called "Expert Web Publishing" or something. The version in the book is way out of date now, and the new version allows you to do all sorts of user maintenance. I recently ran a Web card auction using my system, and it worked very well.
Finally, here is the first of my scripts I'll be posting up to this web
site. This first one is a MP3 jukebox. A sample version can be found at http://wuzzle.org/jukebox.
Due to the unexpected popularity of this script, I have moved it to its
own home here.
There are many great scripts out there, two resources I use a lot when looking for code samples or scripts are: