Perl – Unix Ports for OS/2 & ArcaOS

Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language.
It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors.
Perl is Open Source software, licensed under its Artistic License, or the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Perl was created by Larry Wall.
Perl 1.0 was released to usenet’s alt.comp.sources in 1987
PC Magazine named Perl a finalist for its 1998 Technical Excellence Award in the Development Tool category.
Perl is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Perl takes the best features from other languages, such as C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC, among others.
Perls database integration interface (DBI) supports third-party databases including Oracle, Sybase, Postgres, MySQL and others.
Perl works with HTML, XML, and other mark-up languages.
Perl supports Unicode.
Perl is Y2K compliant.
Perl supports both procedural and object-oriented programming.
Perl interfaces with external C/C++ libraries through XS or SWIG.
Perl is extensible. There are over 500 third party modules available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN).
The Perl interpreter can be embedded into other systems.