The perl was developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as scripting language for unix. It was originally developed for text manipulation.
Following are few highlighted features of perl:
Before jumping into programming, it's required to know how to install and run perl on windows. (On linux machines, perl is included in the standard distribution). There are many flavors of perl available. The Active perl is what I'm using. The ActivePerl can be downloaded from its official website: http://www.activestate.com/activeperl The installation is straight forward. If you need any help, please follow this setup guide: TBD
The beginners to perl usually face following issues during execution:
Following are few highlighted features of perl:
- Highlevel
- General purpose
- Interpreted
- Object Oriented (Class based)
- Perl 1.0 : Original version of perl. Released in 1987.
- Perl 2 : Released in 1988 with better regular expression engine
- Perl 3: Released in 1989 with binary data streams support
- Perl 4: Relesed in 1991 (“Camel Book”)
- Perl 5: Released in 1994 with completely re-write interpreter which supported features like Objects, references, lexical (my) variables, modules
- Perl 6: Is the current version
- Text manipulation
- Graphics programming
- System Administration
- Network programming
Before jumping into programming, it's required to know how to install and run perl on windows. (On linux machines, perl is included in the standard distribution). There are many flavors of perl available. The Active perl is what I'm using. The ActivePerl can be downloaded from its official website: http://www.activestate.com/activeperl The installation is straight forward. If you need any help, please follow this setup guide: TBD
The beginners to perl usually face following issues during execution:
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