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Perl is a family of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages.

The languages in this family include Perl 5 and Perl 6.

PerlMonks is a community website covering all aspects of Perl programming and other related topics such as web applications and system administration.

It is often referred to by users as 'The Monastery'.

In computer science, a library is a collection of non-volatile resources used by computer programs, often to develop software.

These may include configuration data, documentation, help data, message templates, pre-written code and subroutines, classes, values or type specifications.

In IBM's OS/360 and its successors they are referred to as partitioned data sets.

In computing, source code is any collection of computer instructions, possibly with comments, written using a human-readable programming language, usually as ordinary text.

The source code of a program is specially designed to facilitate the work of computer programmers, who specify the actions to be performed by a computer mostly by writing source code.

The source code is often transformed by an assembler or compiler into binary machine code understood by the computer.

The machine code might then be stored for execution at a later time.

Alternatively, source code may be interpreted and thus immediately executed.

Computer programming (often shortened to programming) is a process that leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable computer programs.

Programming involves activities such as analysis, developing understanding, generating algorithms, verification of requirements of algorithms including their correctness and resources consumption, and implementation (commonly referred to as coding) of algorithms in a target programming language.

Source code is written in one or more programming languages.

The purpose of programming is to find a sequence of instructions that will automate performing a specific task or solving a given problem.

The process of programming thus often requires expertise in many different subjects, including knowledge of the application domain, specialized algorithms, and formal logic.