Introduction to Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted programming language that was originally developed for text manipulation.
History of Perl
Perl was created by Larry Wall in 1987 as a Unix scripting language. The name stands for "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language".
Perl Features
- Powerful text processing capabilities
- Cross-platform compatibility
- Extensive library of modules (CPAN)
- Support for procedural and object-oriented programming
Your First Perl Program
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
print "Hello, World!\n";
Running Perl Programs
Save the code above in a file named hello.pl and run it with:
perl hello.pl