Perl is my favorite programming language; it's not only an extremely powerful language, it's also just plain fun to write in. I've been coding in Perl every chance I got since I started using it back in the Perl 4 days. A lot of that code has gone into day job repositories, lost to the sands of time, but there's still a decent amount left that I can (and will) admit to. That code, the Perl articles I've written, and assorted other Perl-related things I'm connected with can be found below:

Articles

FMTYEWTK About Mass Edits in Perl (perl.com)

A beginner's guide to using Perl to edit files from the command line. An earlier version can be found locally.

Graphics articles

Graphics-related Perl articles are now listed in the Graphics area.

Graphics

For the last several years, all of my graphics coding has been in Perl (sometimes with computation kernels written in a lower level language, sometimes not). There's enough of it, in fact, that I've moved it all to the new graphics area.

/dev/urandom

In *nix parlance, random and urandom are virtual devices providing sources of random data. While random makes the user wait for high quality data, urandom just hands over whatever data is at hand -- even if the quality is poor. In that spirit, herein lie a few random scripts and modules that never made it to release quality, but may be of interest to someone nonetheless.