The Perl Programming Language

Welcome to the Perl page! Here, you'll find a description of the language as well as a list of sample programs in that language.

This article was written by:

• Jeremy Grifski
• Ron Zuckerman

Description

Just like normal, I took to Wikipedia to learn more about Perl.

As it turns out, Perl is actually a family of languages sort of like Lisp. However, Perl is mainly divided into two branches: Perl 5 and Perl 6. As you can probably imagine, Perl 5 will be the language we'll be using for this exercise. Perl 6 is actually a major deviation from the traditional language, so I'll probably do a separate tutorial entirely for that language.

At any rate, Perl is a multi-paradigm language, so we'll be diverging a bit from our functional trend in this tutorial. Instead, we'll be working with a language that resembles languages like Python or C.

In terms of features, Perl is a mixed bag, literally. That's because Perl draws its inspiration from several other languages including C, Lisp, and AWK. As a result, Perl supports associative arrays, lists, regular expressions, and first- class functions. In fact, modern Perl even support object-oriented programming.

As a fun tidbit, Perl differs dramatically from Python in terms of complexity. In fact, the creators of Perl live by the slogan "there's more than one way to do it." In contrary, the creators of Python prefer that "there should be one,
and preferably only one, obvious way to do it"

Articles

There are 18 articles:

• Baklava in Perl
• Bubble Sort in Perl
• Capitalize in Perl
• Even Odd in Perl
• Factorial in Perl
• Fibonacci in Perl
• File Input Output in Perl
• Fizz Buzz in Perl
• Hello World in Perl
• Insertion Sort in Perl
• Merge Sort in Perl
• Palindromic Number in Perl
• Prime Number in Perl
• Quick Sort in Perl
• Quine in Perl
• Reverse String in Perl
• Rot13 in Perl
• Selection Sort in Perl