Perl 5

6 Mentors

Our mentors are friendly, experienced Perl 5 developers who will help teach you new techniques and tricks.

578 Students

Join hundreds of students who have enjoyed learning and improving their skills by taking this track.

64 Exercises

Hundreds of hours have gone into making these exercises fun, useful, and challenging to help you enjoy learning.

About Perl 5

package HelloWorld;
use strict;
use warnings;

sub hello {
  return 'Hello, World!';
}

1;

Perl v5 is a high-level general purpose programming language invented by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. It is an eclectic interpreted, procedural, loosely typed language. Its popularity peaked with the rise of the World Wide Web, though it remains widely used in Quality Assurance, IT infrastructure automation, text processing, bioinformatics and web application development, just to name a few areas. It is highly flexible, but this flexibility can have a follow-on maintenance cost.

Perl also has:

minimal built-in object support, but interesting 3rd party OO
first class functions
closures
a powerful built-in regular expression engine
the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN), a massive library of user-contributed modules

Every well-known Unix and Unix-style operating system ships with Perl included.

Join the Perl 5 track

A tremendous learning opportunity to explore the depth of your own knowledge

Exercism is fantastic in learning new languages but that is not the extent of it. If you are a "more experienced" programmer you may have encountered impostor syndrome: the idea you don't really know what you think you know. Exercism lets you solve problems and put them in the space of open feedback which is a tremendous learning opportunity to explore the depth of your own knowledge. Even if you have been programming in a language for awhile it is worth checking into Exercism to see where you stand with current implementation practices.

Tom Leen, Portland

Relaxed. Encouraging. Supportive.

Meet the Perl 5 Track mentors

Once you join the Perl 5 language track, you will receive support and feedback from our team of mentors. Here are the bios of a few of the mentors of this track.