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Perl is a popular programming language that was developed back in 1987. Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, had spent many years consistently developing this language, which is loosely based on the program C. Designed with the express aim of making programming easier for everyone, Perl has two slogans: "There's more than one way to do it", and "Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible". With both these slogans in mind, the language has made leaps and bounds in the move towards creating a better product... Perl offers its users a wide variety of features all through its basic shell programming. However, its programming system uses a set of sigils, which means that variables can be connected as strings. In addition, Perl differs from the usual shell type of programming, as the sigils are able to access all the different variables. There are other areas of Perl that have built-in functions that offer tools consistently used in shell programming, some of which include..