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Perl is actually an acronym for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. It's a wonderful programming langauge with a variety of uses from system administration to web pages. For example, Labgeeks has tons of it in the scheduling and broken bin pages; MMap is also written entirely in Perl.
As a programming language, it falls somewhere between compiled langauges like C, and simpler scripting languages like javascript. A thing that "perl people" say frequently is that "there's more than one way to do it." This philosophy has lead to a very diverse language with capabilities ranging from very basic string manipulation to quite complex data tables.
Perl was originally written and maintained by one Larry Wall, but recently there has been more involvement. The latest version we have been able to obtain is 5.6, but rumors abound about a secret new version.
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