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## That's why we love Perl
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Perl is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 37 years of development.

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### Learning

With free online books, over 25,000 extension modules, and a large developer community, there are many ways to learn Perl.

### Community

Perl has an active world wide community with over 230 local groups, mailing lists and support/discussion websites.

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Core documentation, FAQs and translations.

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Perl is being actively developed. There are many ways to get involved

### CPAN

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) has over 25,000 open source distributions available for download.

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Events, conferences, social and technical events around the world offer lots of networking and learning opportunities.

### Raku

Raku (formerly known as Perl 6) is a sister language, part of the Perl family, not intended as a replacement for Perl, but as its own thing - libraries exist to allow you to call Perl code from Raku programs and vice versa.

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### The Perl Foundation

The Perl Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl programming language through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code.

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