What is Perl?

What is Perl?

• Perl is a programming language which can be used for a large variety of tasks. A typical simple use of Perl would be for extracting information from a text file and printing out a report or for converting a text file into another form. But Perl provides a large number of tools for quite complicated problems, including systems programming.

• Programs written in Perl are called Perl scripts, whereas the term the perl program refers to the system program named perl for executing Perl scripts.