Perl is a family of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. The languages in this family include Perl 5 and Perl 6. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, such as: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier.^[1]

Resources

• Introduction
• Perl.org
• Modules on CPAN
• Installing on *Nix Systems
• Installing on Win32 Systems
• Hello World
• Fun with Named Colors
• Simple HTML Parser

See Also

• Topic: Perl

References