Perl is, thanks to its portability and simplicity one of the best languages to begin with. While this tutorial was aimed mainly at the system administrator or user, modules can also be used in a lot of other environement. The second most widely used environment in which perl is used is web servers. Perl can be used, thanks to CGI Common Gateway Interface, to process data in a web environement wherever that data comes from the server, client or is the bridge between clients and a database.This tutorial will allow you to take Perl wherever you want it to go.