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 also
many published by O'Reilly & Assoc.  See pod/perlbook.pod for more
information.

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This port is marked FORBIDDEN as it conflics badly with the Perl5
that is in the 'base' system. Sysadmins and users who know how to
override this may do so, and must accept the risk of doing so.

- MarkM