Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. Perl borrows features from a variety of other languages including C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, sed and Lisp.
The following Debian packages are shipped with grml out-of-the-box:
dh-make-perl: Create Debian packages from perl modules
filepp: A generic perl-based file pre-processor
pcregrep: grep utility that uses perl 5 compatible regexes
perl-doc:
Perl documentation
perl-modules: Core
Perl modules
perl-suid: Runs setuid
Perl scripts
pperl: Make
Perl scripts persistent in memory
psh: interactive shell with the power of perl