At least one blurb offers assurances As long as you read the fine print... which appears to assume, rather than guarantee, that perl will (x-)compile for the AMTEL processor in question... and that (now stricken) cautionary observation is merely to suggest you do a quick check, as some of the CPU's in your link carry the ARM name.

Hope this helps.

PS (update): When posting a link here, enclose the node id or URL in square brackets. For example, [id://1018783] produces Single Board Computers /PERL and [http://www.perlmonks.com/] renders as http://www.perlmonks.com

PS2: When (self is) posting a response, I should be sure to read the supporting docs carefully. Had to strike above because I missed a statement appears to say that the SBC in question will run Deb distro.

I've not had any experience with the particular product you point to nor Perl in the SBC arena at large. The current SBCs I'm using are Arduinos which are programmed off board using an IDE (runs on Windows & Linux for sure) in C++. (or a variant of C++)

Seems to me there's a trade off to consider here. Do I want the relative comfort level of having a full Debian installation (and I'm doubting that just a hair) with all the overhead or would I be happier with less overhead and programming everything I need "from scratch?"

Raspberry Pi runs Linux distros so it comes with Perl and now Citrix Perl seems to be available.