This is Debian's prepackaged version of Larry Wall's wonderful
interpreted scripting language Perl version 5.  For more information
about Perl, see Usenet's comp.lang.perl.* newsgroups.

Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, awk
and shell.  See the manual page for more hype.  There are many Nutshell
Handbooks published by O'Reilly & Assoc.  See pod/perlbook.pod
for more information.

This package was put together by Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com> f                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   