can i, learn, programmign here

I am sure there are people here who know how to code. Whether they'd be up for teaching you is a different story.

I would elaborate on this a bit more, e.g. what purpose would you like to learn to code for, for what operating system, etc. You might get a reply from someone.

I actually found this website when looking for examples of messageboards, since I was interested in making one of my own. Too bad I don't know a thing of Perl.

Ah, you don't need to know Perl to run something like this. Just clone this (https://github.com/Flameborn/Kiramoji) repository, and look at the instal instructions. It should be easy to follow, if not, please let us know.