Introduction

You DO not need to learn Perl to use NMIS, Perl is however a powerful, elegant and thoughtful language for solving real problems.  You can do low level things like C with the ease of scripts like BASH, and everything in between.  BUT the real power of Perl is CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, someone somewhere has probably already solved your problem and published something on CPAN.

Perl Online References

Some great web pages to learn about Perl

• Learn Perl in about 2 hours 30 minutes
• Introduction to Perl

• Perl Tutorial Videos - Online Training

• Perl 5 Tutorials | Essential Training

• Beginning Perl (free book) - www.perl.org

  
  

Please comment if you know some more good ones.