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helpful hints - Perl

Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Its features include:

Portability
Very Powerful
Very Flexible
Very Fast
Large (and growing) Community

We refer to Perl as a very quick and ugly programmer's language. It is particularly good at a number of common tasks.

Installing Modules

use cPanel to install
create appropriate directory in cgi-bin
copy .pm file into appropriate directory
e.g. WWW::LWP::UserAgent
cgi-bin > WWW > LWP > UserAgent.pm