1. "Perl was developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier." (Wikipedia: Perl, 12.21.22 UTC 00:58)
2. "The overall structure of Perl derives broadly from C. Perl is procedural in nature, with variables, expressions, assignment statements, brace-delimited blocks, control structures, and subroutines." (Wikipedia: Perl, 12.21.22 UTC 00:58)
3. "Perl is often used as a glue language, tying together systems and interfaces that were not specifically designed to interoperate, and for 'data munging', that is, converting or processing large amounts of data for tasks such as creating reports." (Wikipedia: Perl, 12.21.22 UTC 00:58)
4. "Perl is implements as a core interpreter, written in C, together with a large collection of modules, written in Perl and C." (Wikipedia: Perl, 12.21.22 UTC 00:58)
5. "Perl's text-handling capabilities can be used for generating SQL queries; arrays, hashes, and automatic memory management make it easy to collect and process the returned data." (Wikipedia: Perl, 12.21.22 UTC 00:58)
