   getting PERL to work.
  First of all, I am a newbie here on this forum. So hello everyone (pretty quiet forum eh?).I downloaded Perl from the internet.And it didnt seem to come with any kind of documentation.Im trying to develop and test on a WinXP laptop.What do i need to do to get started?And what''s all this stuff about compiling Perl???I have to compile Perl so I can use Perl? 
  try googlePersonal opinion:  perl is an ugly mess of a language, if there''s no specific reason for choosing perl, I recommend to you python (and it even comes great docs, including a tutorial)   --Dustin 