Perl is a free, open source programming language created by Larry Wall. Perl aims for adjectives like "practical" and "quick" and not so much words like "structured" or "elegant".

A Perl script is a text file, which keeps perl code in it and it can be executed at the command line by invoking the interpreter on your application, as in the following:

This document was born because some users are reluctant to learn Perl, prior to jumping into mod_perl. I will try to cover some of the most frequent pure Perl questions being asked at the list.

This is the first edition of our popular Perl 5 book after the release of Perl 6, a lan‐guage that started its life as something based on Perl but has now taken a life of its own.

A filehandle is the name for an I/O connection between your Perl process and the I/O device. These names are used without a special prefix character so it is suggested that you use ALL UPPERCASE …

Again, we'll come to this later on in Chapter 10. Every Perl installation comes with a collection of 'core modules'. The core, unsurprisingly, is the collective term for the files that are installed with your Perl …

Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a powerful and adaptable scripting language. Perl became very popular in early 90’s as web became a reality.