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What is Perl?



Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl) is a programming language designed for
processing text, making it one of the most popular languages for writing CGI scripts. Perl is
an interpretive language, which makes it easy to build and test simple programs.

The path to Perl is #! /usr/bin/perl

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