What is Perl ? - Beginner's Introduction

Perl is a programming language developed by Larry Wall, especially designed for text processing. It stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language. It runs on a variety of platforms, such as Windows, Mac OS, and the various versions of UNIX. If you have basic knowledge of C or UNIX Shell then PERL is very easy to learn. This tutorial gives a complete understanding on Perl

• Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language. 
• Perl stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language. 
• It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors.
•  Perl is an Open Source software, licensed under its Artistic License, or the GNU General Public License (GPL). 
•  Perl was created by Larry Wall.Perl 1.0 was released to usenet's alt.comp.sources in 1987 At the time of writing thi tutorial, latest version of perl is 5.16.2
•  Perl is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. 

Hello World Program

#this is a comment
#perl is case sensitives 
print "Hello World!";

This will produce following result:

Hello World!