These lecture notes are here for archival reasons. I no longer teach Perl.
As such some of the latest Perl innovations are not present. The notes refer to Perl 5.001
Nonetheless, I still believe that this is a valuable resource.
The latest stable release of Perl is 5.20 – for example, it doesn't have CGI built-in anymore.
Detail on more modern Perl maybe found at:
Let us conclude our brief study of Perl by looking at some example CGI scripts.
The examples are taken form the Laura Lemay book: "Teach yourself web publishing in HTML in 14 Days".