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Perl Monks is a community website covering all aspects of Perl programming and other related topics such as web applications and system administration. It is often referred to by users as 'the monastery'.
The name Perl Monks, and the general style of the website, is designed to both humourously reflect the almost religious zeal that programmers sometimes have for their favourite language, and also to engender an atmosphere of calm reflection and consideration for other users. This is sometimes seen as pretentious, however, and some Perl programmers vociferously avoid the site because of this.
Users (referred to as monks) have a home page, and create discussion topics which other monks can reply to and vote on. A user has an experience rating (XP) that roughly measures their participation in the Perl Monks website as perceived by the other monks, not necessarily their proficiency in the Perl language.
The site has tutorials, reviews, Q&A, poetry, obfuscated code, as well as sections for code snippets and entire scripts and modules.
The code that the site runs on is based on the Everything Engine, but has much in common with Slashdot such as the emphasis placed on user feedback.
Another feature that Perl Monks retains from Everything is the Chatterbox, which is a text chat area at the side of every page. Any logged-in user can type in anything they want, and it appears for all users to see. Talk in the chatterbox is often Perl related, and various tools (written, naturally, in Perl) have been written to improve the chatterbox experience. Some come to Perl Monks primarily for the chatterbox, others turn it off as a distraction.