Lets write a first program in perl that prints "Hello World". The small program goes as follows:

Write this program using your favourite editor vim, emacs, jedit, ultraedit or whatever. Eclipse (IDE commonly used for Java platform) has a very nice plug-in for Perl and can be highly productive and fast for Perl projects. After the above program is written, simply save the file (say, as hello.pl) and type:

The output comes out to be:

Congratulations on running your first Perl program!!