Welcome to the Singapore Perl Mongers!

We're a group of people in Singapore interested in the Perl programming language. We meet up once a month or so to talk about Perl, software engineering, testing or anything else that strikes our fancy. If you write Perl, for work or play, at school or after dark, please join us to talk, discuss, dissect, improve and spread Perl.

What is Perl?

First published in 1987, Perl is a popular, multiparadigm, dynamic, interpreted programming language. It supports object-oriented and procedural programming, along with aspects of functional programming. The Perl interpreter source code is freely available under any version of the GPL (from version 1.0 onwards) or Perl's own Artistic License, making it completely free and open source.

Perl's greatest asset - apart from a friendly and helpful community, and the ability to use the most appropriate programming paradigm for the job - is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN), a catalogue of over 66,000+ Perl modules across 17,000+ distributions ("packages"), all freely distributable, most available under the GPL or Artistic license.

Next meetup

A photograph from a Singapore Perl Mongers meetup

Meeting #3 Andante
When	Saturday, December 5, 2009, from 3pm to 7pm
Where	Hackerspace.sg, Kampong Glam
RSVP	Facebook, Mailing list
More details

Meetings usually happen on the first Saturday of the month, between 3pm and 7pm.