Many good books have been written about Perl--see the section later in
L<perlfaq2> for more details.
-Tutorial documents are included in current or upcoming Perl releases
+Tutorial documents included in current or upcoming Perl releases
include L<perltoot> for objects or L<perlboot> for a beginner's
approach to objects, L<perlopentut> for file opening semantics,
L<perlreftut> for managing references, L<perlretut> for regular
I<The Perl Review> ( http://www.theperlreview.com ) focuses on Perl
almost completely (although it sometimes sneaks in an article about
-another language). There's also I<$foo Magazin>, a german magazine
+another language). There's also I<$foo Magazin>, a German magazine
dedicated to Perl, at ( http://www.foo-magazin.de ).
The I<Perl-Zeitung> is a German-speaking magazine for Perl beginners
moved to a reader-supported monthly e-zine format in which subscribers
can download issues as PDF documents. In 2006, I<TPJ> merged with Dr.
Dobbs Journal (online edition). To read old I<TPJ> articles, see
-http://www.ddj.com/ , brian d foy's index of online TPJ content
+http://www.ddj.com/ or brian d foy's index of online TPJ content
( http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=711609 ).
=head2 What mailing lists are there for Perl?
mailing lists. Consult the documentation that came with the module for
subscription information.
-A comprehensive list of Perl related mailing lists can be found at:
+A comprehensive list of Perl-related mailing lists can be found at:
http://lists.perl.org/
The C<psh> (Perl sh) is currently at version 1.8. The Perl Shell is a shell
that combines the interactive nature of a Unix shell with the power of
-Perl. The goal is a full featured shell that behaves as expected for
+Perl. The goal is a full-featured shell that behaves as expected for
normal shell activity and uses Perl syntax and functionality for
control-flow statements and other things. You can get C<psh> at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/psh/ .
print join "\n", @files;
-If you simply need to quickly check to see if a module is
+If you simply need to check quickly to see if a module is
available, you can check for its documentation. If you can
read the documentation the module is most likely installed.
If you cannot read the documentation, the module might not
help you with this. The perl-mode or newer cperl-mode for emacs
can provide remarkable amounts of help with most (but not all)
code, and even less programmable editors can provide significant
-assistance. Tom Christiansen and many other VI users swear by
+assistance. Tom Christiansen and many other VI users swear by
the following settings in vi and its clones:
set ai sw=4
http://www.optiperl.com/
OptiPerl is a Windows IDE with simulated CGI environment, including
-debugger and syntax highlighting editor.
+debugger and syntax-highlighting editor.
=item Padre
http://www.zeusedit.com/lookmain.html
Zeus for Window is another Win32 multi-language editor/IDE
-that comes with support for Perl:
+that comes with support for Perl.
=back
There is also a toyedit Text widget based editor written in Perl
that is distributed with the Tk module on CPAN. The ptkdb
-( http://ptkdb.sourceforge.net/ ) is a Perl/tk based debugger that
+( http://ptkdb.sourceforge.net/ ) is a Perl/Tk-based debugger that
acts as a development environment of sorts. Perl Composer
( http://perlcomposer.sourceforge.net/ ) is an IDE for Perl/Tk
GUI creation.
=item Alpha
is an editor, written and extensible in Tcl, that nonetheless has
-built in support for several popular markup and programming languages
+built-in support for several popular markup and programming languages,
including Perl and HTML ( http://www.his.com/~jguyer/Alpha/Alpha8.html ).
=item BBEdit and BBEdit Lite
back to the original data. If you really want to mangle (er, modify) a
copy, you'll have to sacrifice the memory needed to make one.
-=item * Tie large variables to disk.
+=item * Tie large variables to disk
For "big" data stores (i.e. ones that exceed available memory) consider
using one of the DB modules to store it on disk instead of in RAM. This
and on the way you write your CGI programs, so investigate them with
care.
-See http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-category/15_World_Wide_Web_HTML_HTTP_CGI/ .
+See also
+http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-category/15_World_Wide_Web_HTML_HTTP_CGI/ .
=head2 How can I hide the source for my Perl program?