This docume
                  nt is intended
                 to give you a quic
               k overview of the Per
              l programming language,
               along with pointers to
             further documentation. It
            is intended as a "bootstrap
            " guide for those who are ne
           w to the language, and provid
           es just enough information fo
           r you to be able to read other
            peoples' Perl and understand
           roughly what it's doing, or wr
           ite your own simple scripts.
           This introductory document doe
           s not aim to be complete. It d
           oes not even aim to be entirel
           y accurate. In some cases per
           fection has been sacrificed i
            n the goal of getting the ge
            neral idea across. You are
             *strongly* advised to foll
             ow this introduction with
               more information from
               the full Perl manual,
                 the table of conte
                 nts to which can
                   be found in p
                      erltoc.