Want to learn to code? Are you a barely beginning programmer who wants to learn more? This isn’t the Camel Book (O’Reilly’s best selling Programming Perl , at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/, in case you’re not yet in the know), but if you’re interested in Perl, spend some time browsing through this section. You can use these programs as they are, or use the “Hacking the Hack” sections to tweak and fiddle with the scripts. This is a useful way to get more Perl knowledge if you’re a searching nut, and you want to play with programs that do something useful right out of the gate.