There’s More Than One Way To Do It.

Perl Properties

• Interpreted Language
• “Object-Oriented”
• Cross-platform
• Extensible, rich set of libraries
• Used for Web Programming

What do you need?

• Active state Perl or any other standard Perl interpreter
• Any text editor such as notepad

You can download Perl installer from ActiveState download website, you will get a list of installers there, download installer for windows.

Install ActiveState Perl, it does not takes much, simply double click on msi installer file and it will guide you through the rest of installation process.

Now that your installation is over simply go to windows command prompt and do the following

You should get the result as below

If you get these lines on command prompt, it means that Perl is successfully installed on your machine.

My First program

Just open your favorite editor and type the following lines

Your hello world program is ready save it as “helloworld.pl” in any directory you feel like.

Go to command prompt and change the current directory to directory where you have saved your “helloworld.pl” and type on command line

You will get output as:

Key things to notice:

• Everything that starts with a hash is a comment in perl
• Perl statement ends with a semicolon

Perl is a lot more than this hello world program, this was just to give you taste of Perl.

I will be back soon with more elaborate articles on Perl, please keep checking this place.