Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, including "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language". Wikipedia

Created Year: 1987
Created by: Larry Wall
Designed by: Larry Wall
Developed by: Larry Wall • The Perl Foundation
Operating systems: HP-UX • IBM AIX • Linux • Microsoft Windows • Solaris • macOS
Implemented in: C
Aliases: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, Perl/CGI, Pearl, perl
File extensions: pl, pm

Wikidata: Q42478

Influenced: Apache Groovy • BeanShell • Chaos • Falcon • JavaScript • Julia • Kinetic Rule Language • Pascal Script • Perl Data Language • PHP • PowerShell • Python • Qore • Raku • Ruby • Sleep

Influenced by: AWK • BASIC • C • C++ • Lisp • sed

Programming paradigms: multi-paradigm programming

Language types: imperative programming language • interpreted language • multi-paradigm programming language • object-based language • procedural programming language • scripting language

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Hello World\n";