应用编程

Perl has a large number of modules (23,500+) designed to help you in developing your application(s), these are hosted on CPAN. There are also many other Perl related projects which have their own sites, here are a few of them.

If you are looking for a list of recommended modules, look at Task::Kensho.

CGI/Web Programming and Administration

Basics with LWP - an article by Sean Burke
CGI.pm - a core module for web forms
Development with mod_perl and Apache - persistent, embedded Perl interpreter
NMS - Web scripts written by experts
embperl - a framework for building websites with Perl.
Catalyst - MVC Web Framework similar to Ruby on Rails and Spring
CGI::Application - Another MVC Web Framework
Template Toolkit - General Purpose Templating System

Science Related Programming

BioPerl for Bioinformatics, Genomics, and the Life Science
The Perl Data Language for Scientific Computing
perl4lib for library and information science

Database Programming

DBI.pm - the Perl Database Interface
DBIx::Class - Database ORM

Object Oriented Programming

Moose - a postmodern object system for Perl 5
MooseX:: modules are Moose eXtensions

General Programming

The Perl DateTime Project
The Perl Email Project
POE - a cooperative threading framework
PAR - Cross-platform packaging and deployment tool; turns Perl programs into stand-alone executables

GUI Toolkits

Perl/Tk - Tk bindings for perl
PerlQT - Perl bindings for QT
gtk2-perl - Perl bindings for GTK+
WxPerl - Perl bindings for the WxWidgets cross platform toolkit

Graphics Programming

Tip

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