Perl dates back to 1987,when one man,Larry Wall,began developing the language simply as a tool for solving the system programming problems he encountered as a Unix administrator.

• Perl语言可追溯到1987年，有一名叫拉利·华尔的人为解决他作为Unix管理员所碰到的系统编程问题，开始开发这种语言作为工具。