Perl is a high level interpreted programming language, it is commonly used for server side web-scripting (like PHP) but is also very powerful for more general uses. It's particularly notable for its regex engine which allows for some impressive results (largely due to the ability to nest blocks of code within them).
On Windows we have two main options if you want to use Perl. Neither is quite perfect (the majority of problems I have found have been around network protocol components) but they probably fulfil most users requirements.
These choices are:Some of the differences are discussed on this page, it also provides a bunch more information about Perl on Windows.
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