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perldoc perlgpl perlglossary perlhist perlintro

perlpolicy perlrepository perltodo perlutil

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perlaix perlamiga perlapollo perlbeos perlbs2000 perlce perlcygwin perldgux perldos perlebcdic perlepoc

perlfreebsd perlhaiku perlhpux perlhurd perlirix perllinux perlmacos perlmacosx perlmpeix perlnetware perlopenbsd perlos2 perlos390 perlos400 perlplan9 perlqnx perlriscos

perlsolaris perlsymbian perltru64 perluts perlvmesa perlvms perlvos

perlapiperlapioperlcallperlclib

perlembedperlgutsperlhack

perlinternperliol

perlmroapiperlxs

perlxstut

perlfaqperlfaq1perlfaq2perlfaq3perlfaq4perlfaq5perlfaq6perlfaq7perlfaq8perlfaq9

perlbootperlbotperlmod

perlmodinstallperlmodlib

perlmodstyleperlnewmod

perlobjperltoocperltoot

perlfaqperlfaq1perlfaq2perlfaq3perlfaq4perlfaq5perlfaq6perlfaq7perlfaq8perlfaq9

perlreperlreapi

perlrebackslashperlrecharclass

perlrequickperlrerefperlretutperlreguts

perldscperldebtutperlopentutperlpacktutperlreftutperlthrtut

perlunicodeperlunifaq

perluniintroperluniprops

perlunitut

perlcnperljpperlkoperltw

perldata perldiag perldebguts perldbmfilter perlipc perllocale perlpod perlpodspec perllol perlnumber perlop

perlfilter perlfork perlform perlfunc perllexwarn perlpragma perlref perlrun perlsub perlsyn perltie perlvar

now → ?

perl is in git(perlrepository)

I’m a committer

Docs are for thecurrent version

perlfaq back in perl

books out of perlfaq2

into perlbook

perlvar reordered,variable birth documented

perlexperimentlists iffyfeatures

a new perlop

perlkeyword

Other happenings

• “Perl Documentation Team”

• Updates to perlipc