Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted programming language created by Larry Wall in 1987, originally designed for text processing and report generation.

Over the years, it has evolved into a feature-rich language supporting both procedural and object-oriented paradigms, with strong capabilities in regular expressions, file handling, and system administration tasks.

It is cross-platform, running on Windows, macOS, and UNIX variants, and is open-source under the Artistic License or GNU GPL. Perl draws syntax and concepts from C, making it familiar to developers with prior experience in these languages.

Like Python and Lua, this is a command line program. Any GUI IDE is going to be tacked on.