Unable to run prog's

[Mohd Abdul Rasheed]

Sir ,
   I am interested in learning perl for BioInformatics. I have downloaded
the 5.8 version of Perl from ActiveState website.
   As there are no tutors to teach it, I am feeling diffulty . Basically I
have learned the basics & wrote a number of programmes but I am unable to
run them.
  The thing I see in Perl is ppm prompt which looks like
ppm>
             & unfortunately on this prompt I am unable to run any of my
Perl programme .
            Please help me out sir & give tips for begining it.