#Hello World in Perl

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Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed 
by Larry Wall, a linguist working as a systems administrator for NASA, in 1987, as a general-purpose Unix scripting 
language to make report processing easier
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PERL is already installed by default in the [Arietta](/arietta) microSD.

##Hello world example

This is the "Hello world !" source code example.

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print "Hello world !\n";
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Save it with in hello.pl then run it typing:

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~# perl hello.pl
Hello world !
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##Related links

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<li><a href="http://www.perl.org/">Perl official website</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.perl.org/docs.html">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl">Wikipedia definition of Perl</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiht.link/perl-resources">Perl Guide and Resources</a></li> 
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