Welcome to the Singapore Perl Mongers website!

Founded sometime last century (seriously!), this group was resurrected in September 2008 to bring together Perl enthusiasts and professionals in Singapore. 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.

What is Perl Mongers?

Perl Mongers is both a common term for a Perl user group (like this one!) as well as "a loose association" of Perl user groups around the world. There are hundreds of such groups; many meet monthly, stay in touch, promote Perl to the larger programming community, and organize lectures, talks and discussions.

(The use of the camel image in association with the Perl language is a trademark of O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Used with permission for the PerlMonks logo. Thanks, O'Reilly!)

What do we do?

Singapore Perl Mongers is a young group yet; for now, you should join the mailing list. If you're only planning on listening in, you can subscribe to the web interface provided by Google Groups: if you want to contribute, however, your e-mails will be moderated unless you're also signed in to the mailing list..

In a month or so, once we've got a few members, we'll start organizing proper meetups. When and how? Join the mailing list to find out!