Perl / perl5

Perl is Copyright (C) 1993 - 2026 by Larry Wall and others.
All rights reserved.
# ABOUT PERL
Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for
text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including
system administration, web development, network programming, GUI
development, and more.
The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient,
complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal). Its major
features are that it's easy to use, supports both procedural and
object-oriented (OO) programming, has powerful built-in support for text
processing, and has one of the world's most impressive collections of
third-party modules.
For an introduction to the language's features, see pod/perlintro.pod.
For a discussion of the important changes in this release, see
pod/perldelta.pod.
There are also many Perl books available, covering a wide variety of topics,
from various publishers. See pod/perlbook.pod for more information.
# INSTALLATION
If you're using a relatively modern operating system and want to
install this version of Perl locally, run the following commands:
 ./Configure -des -Dprefix=$HOME/localperl
 make test
 make install
This will configure and compile perl for your platform, run the regression
tests, and install perl in a subdirectory "localperl" of your home directory.
If you run into any trouble whatsoever or you need to install a customized
version of Perl, you should read the detailed instructions in the "INSTALL"
file that came with this distribution. Additionally, there are a number of
"README" files with hints and tips about building and using Perl on a wide
variety of platforms, some more common than others.
Once you have Perl installed, a wealth of documentation is available to you
through the 'perldoc' tool. To get started, run this command:
 perldoc perl
# IF YOU RUN INTO TROUBLE
Perl is a large and complex system that's used for everything from
knitting to rocket science. If you run into trouble, it's quite
likely that someone else has already solved the problem you're
facing. Once you've exhausted the documentation, please report bugs to us
at the GitHub issue tracker at https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues
While it was current when we made it available, Perl is constantly evolving
and there may be a more recent version that fixes bugs you've run into or
adds new features that you might find useful.
You can always find the latest version of perl on a CPAN (Comprehensive Perl
Archive Network) site near you at https://www.cpan.org/src/
If you want to submit a simple patch to the perl source, see the "SUPER
QUICK PATCH GUIDE" in pod/perlhack.pod.
Just a personal note: I want you to know that I create nice things like this
because it pleases the Author of my story. If this bothers you, then your
notion of Authorship needs some revision. But you can use perl anyway. :-)
The author.
# LICENSING
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms o