Every child in America, and several other countries, have access to an Apple Mac. Tell them to open Finder, then open Applications, then open Utilites, then open Terminal and type this: 
perl -MHTTP::Tiny -e 'eval HTTP::Tiny->new->get(shift)->{content}' htt
+ps://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=176043;displaytype=displaycode

[download]
Hit return and wow kid genius you just wrote a computer program that downloads another program that runs and looks super cool! What else can this thing do? Type: perldoc perlintro

(tinyurl.com/spiraling-quine links the source of the amazing spiraling quine)

In reply to Impress your children with Perl by Anonymous Monk

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