Perl

Perl is an open source dynamic, interpreted general purpose programming language. Perl is primarily a scripting language, but it is also heavily used in web development and bioinformatics.

Perl 5.16 is installed by default on the Linux desktop platform.

Installing CPAN modules

Note

To install Perl modules via sudo cpan you need to be in the Administrators group. See Permissions for more information.

You can use sudo to install cpan modules like so:

sudo cpan install <modulename>