PERL

Per was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions. The latest major stable revision is 5.16, released in May 2012. Perl 6 is a complete redesign of the language, announced in 2000 and still under active development as of 2012s.

– Wikipedia 2013-02-18

API

The perl api is avaible online [1]. It has also a command line tool called perldoc

[1]http://perldoc.perl.org/

Packages/Modules

Packages, modules or distributions can be administrated with the package manager: cpan

To install a new packages:

cpan $packagename$

Or entering in the interactive mode:

cpan
i $pacakgename$