What is PERL?
It is a 3rd-generation script programming language.

PERL -- Practical Extraction and Report Language
PERL -- Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister

Perl Home Page:   http://www.perl.com/
Perl created by programming guru Larry Wall.
Other Perl gurus...   Randal Schwartz, Tom Christiansen, and Lincoln Stein.

I started with PERL using the Learning Perl book, but quickly out grew it and moved onto Programming Perl. I have found the Perl Cookbook to be excellent and KevinM [who is a Unix SysAdmin that does tool development in PERL] recommends it.

   "This may seem a bit weird, but that's okay, because it is weird."
   -- Larry Wall

There's More Than One Way To Do It -- TMTOWTDI ("tim-toady")

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