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The overall structure of Perl derives broadly from C. Perl is procedural in nature, with variables, expressions, assignment statements, brace-delimited blocks, control structures, and subroutines.
Perl also takes features from shell programming. All variables are marked with leading sigils, which unambiguously identify the data type (for example, scalar, array, hash) of the variable in context. [...]

To use the Perl programming language you must install a Perl interpreter. Depending on the operating system you are using, it is possible that the interpreter may be already installed. To see whether it is installed, go to a command prompt and enter:
perl -v
If you get a message like ‘command not found’ or ‘Bad [...]

Perl 5 isn’t perfect, though, and some of its flaws are more apparent the closer Perl 6 comes to completion.
Perhaps the biggest imperfection of Perl 5 is its internals. Though much of the design is clever, there are also places of
obsolescence and interdependence, as well as optimizations that no one remembers, but no one [...]

As Adam Turoff explained once, Perl has two subtle advantages: manipulexity and whipuptitude. It’s very important to be able
to solve the problem at hand simply and easily without languages and tools and syntax getting in your way. That’s
whipuptitude. Manipulexity is the ability to use simple tools and build a sufficiently complex solution to a [...]