Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall, a linguist working as a systems administrator for NASA, in 1987, as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. (read all...)
This is the “Hello world !” source code example.
print "Hello world !\n";
Save it with in hello.pl then run it typing:
debarm:~# perl hello.pl Hello world !
PERL is installed by default on Debian Linux