Perl For Mac

Perl is a high-level programming language with a history of over 30 years of development. It can run on numerous types of platforms and is suitable for both large scale projects and smaller scale, quick prototyping. Peel 6 became known as Raku starting in 2019, and it is now considered a separate language with has its own development team.

Perl should normally already be installed on macOS. To check if it is, and which version is available, just run “perl -v” in terminal. You can also download the source code to compile and run Perl directly from source.

Designed to be versatile, Perl is a general-purpose language that can be used for a wide array of projects, such as system administration, web development, UI development, network programming, and more. Intended to be practical rather than elegant and minimalistic, the language supports both procedural and object-oriented programming, comes with built-in text processing capabilities, and has an extensive collection of third-party modules.

Perl is open-source, and it sees heavy use around the world, by both large companies and individual programmers. It is packed with features that make it a good choice for pretty much any task thanks to its flexibility.