* Perl stands for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. It is a high-level programming language written by Larry Wall, specially designed for processing text.
* Perl 1.0 was released to usenet's alt.comp.sources in 1987
* It supports object-oriented programming, and its syntax is quite similar to C language. It is much more flexible to use. Due to its strong text processing abilities, it has become one of the most popular languages for writing Common Gateway Interface(CGI) scripts.
* Perl is an Open Source software, licensed under its Artistic License, or the GNU General Public License (GPL).
