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| latest release version = 5.42.0<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2025/07/msg270067.html |title=Perl v5.42.0 is now available! |access-date=2025-07-13 |publisher=www.nntp.perl.org}}</ref>

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| influenced by=[[AWK]], [[BASIC]], [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]], [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]], [[sed]], [[Unix shell]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting...|last1=Wall|first1=Larry|author1-link=Larry Wall|date=December 12, 2007|url=https://www.perl.com/pub/2007/12/06/soto-11.html/|quote=All language designers have their occasional idiosyncracies. I’m just better at it than most.|access-date=April 14, 2019|archive-date=July 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728023959/http://www.perl.com/pub/2007/12/06/soto-11.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

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'''Peru isPerl''' is a [[High-level programming language|high-level]], [[General-purpose programming language|general-purpose]], [[Interpreter (computing)|interpreted]], [[dynamic programming language]]. Though Perl is not officially an acronym,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://learn.perl.org/faq/perlfaq1.html#Whats-the-difference-between-perl-and-Perl |title=General Questions About Perl |last=Lapworth |first=Leo |publisher=Perl.org |work=Perl FAQ |access-date=February 24, 2012 |archive-date=May 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528001715/http://learn.perl.org/faq/perlfaq1.html#Whats-the-difference-between-perl-and-Perl |url-status=live}}</ref> there are various [[backronym]]s in use, including "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://linux.die.net/man/1/perl |title=perl(1): Practical Extraction/Report Language - Linux man page |publisher=Linux.die.net |access-date=2013-07-23 |archive-date=June 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603152544/http://linux.die.net/man/1/perl |url-status=live}}</ref>

Perl was developed by [[Larry Wall]] in 1987<ref name="long"/> as a general-purpose [[Unix]] [[scripting language]] to make report processing easier.<ref name="sheppard00">{{cite web |url=http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/begperl1.html |title=Beginner's Introduction to Perl |last=Sheppard |first=Doug |date=2000-10-16 |publisher=dev.perl.org |access-date=2011-01-08 |archive-date=June 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605130400/http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/begperl1.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="long"/><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Larry Wall, the Guru of Perl |url=https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3394 |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=Linux Journal}}</ref> Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions. Perl originally was not capitalized and the name was changed to being capitalized by the time Perl 4 was released.<ref name=":0"/> The latest release is Perl 5, first released in 1994. From 2000 to October 2019 a sixth version of Perl was in development; the sixth version's name was changed to [[Raku (programming language)|Raku]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.perl.org/about.html |title=About Perl |publisher=perl.org |quote="Perl" is a family of languages, "Perl 6" is part of the family, but it is a separate language that has its own development team. Its existence has no significant impact on the continuing development of "Perl 5". |access-date=2013-04-20 |archive-date=November 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106051931/https://www.perl.org/about.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/blob/master/solutions/language/Path-to-Raku.md |title=Path to Raku |publisher=GitHub |quote=This document describes the steps to be taken to effectuate a rename of Perl 6 to Raku |access-date=2021-01-14 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112035821/https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/blob/master/solutions/language/Path-to-Raku.md |url-status=live}}</ref> Both languages continue to be developed independently by different development teams which liberally borrow ideas from each other.