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# Perl Tutorial  Perl is an acronym for Practical Extraction and Report Language, which can be translated as "Practical Extraction and Report Language". Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally designed by Larry Wall and first released on December 18, 1987. Perl borrows features from C, sed, awk, shell scripting, and many other programming languages. The most important feature of Perl is its built-in support for regular expressions, as well as the vast third-party code library CPAN. * * * ## Who is this tutorial for? This tutorial is suitable for developers who want to learn the Perl programming language from scratch. Of course, this tutorial will also delve into some modules to give you a better understanding of Perl's applications. * * * ## What you should know before starting Before continuing with this tutorial, you should understand some basic computer programming terminology. If you have learned other programming languages like PHP, ASP, etc., it will help you understand Perl programming more quickly. * * * ## First Perl Program For most programming languages, the first introductory code is "Hello World!". The following code uses Perl to output "Hello World!": ## Example #!/usr/bin/perl print"Hello, World!n"; [Run Example »](#)