| Perl | … |
|---|---|
| Paradigm | Multi-paradigm |
| Designed by | Larry Wall |
| Developer | Larry Wall |
| First appeared | December 18, 19871 |
| Stable release | 5.42.12 / 8 March 2026 |
| Preview release | 5.43.113 / 2 June 2026 |
| Typing discipline | Dynamic |
| Implementation language | C |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| License | Artistic 1.045 or GNU General Public License version 1 or any later version6 |
| Filename extensions | .plx, .pls, .pl, .pm, .xs, .t, .pod, .cgi, .psgi |
| Website | perl.org |
| Influenced by | … |
| AWK, BASIC, C, C++, Lisp, sed, Unix shell7 | … |
| Influenced | … |
| CoffeeScript, Groovy, JavaScript, Julia, LPC, PHP, Python, Raku, Ruby, PowerShell | … |
| • Perl Programming at Wikibooks | … |
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Footnotes
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Ashton, Elaine (1999). “The Timeline of Perl and its Culture (v3.0_0505)”. Archived from the original on January 11, 2013. Retrieved March 12, 2004. ↩
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“Perl v5.42.1 is now available!”. www.nntp.perl.org. Retrieved March 8, 2026. ↩
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“Release announcement for perl v5.43.11”. www.nntp.perl.org. Retrieved June 2, 2026. ↩
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“The”Artistic License”- dev.perl.org”. dev.perl.org. Archived from the original on July 24, 2018. Retrieved June 24, 2016. ↩
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Artistic Archived July 25, 2018, at the Wayback Machine - file on the Perl 5 git repository ↩
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“Perl Licensing”. dev.perl.org. Archived from the original on January 22, 2011. Retrieved January 8, 2011. ↩
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Wall, Larry (December 12, 2007). “Programming is Hard, Let’s Go Scripting…” Archived from the original on July 28, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2019. All language designers have their occasional idiosyncracies. I’m just better at it than most. ↩