package HelloWorld;
use strict;
use warnings;
sub hello {
return 'Hello, World!';
}
1;Perl v5 is a high-level general purpose programming language invented by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. It is an eclectic interpreted, procedural, loosely typed language. Its popularity peaked with the rise of the World Wide Web, though it remains widely used in Quality Assurance, IT infrastructure automation, text processing, bioinformatics and web application development, just to name a few areas. It is highly flexible, but this flexibility can have a follow-on maintenance cost.
Perl also has:
Every well-known Unix and Unix-style operating system ships with Perl included.
Join the Perl 5 track
Exercism is a great website where I was able to have some very interesting challenges.
Once you join the Perl 5 language track, you will receive support and feedback from our team of mentors. Here are the bios of a few of the mentors of this track.
These are a few of the 64 exercises on the Perl 5 track. You can see all the exercises here.
The Perl 5 Maintainers are the brains behind the Perl 5 Track. They spend their spare time creating interesting and challenging exercises that we can all learn from. We are incredibly grateful for their hard work. Here are the bios of a few of the maintainers of this track.