Judging from the complexity of the other posts I won't feel bad if this gets looked over. I first touched a computer a year ago due to work. So don't giggle too much at this question. One of our admins told me that if I really wanted to have fun on cumputers then I should ditch Windows move to Linux and start learning Perl- I now run Linux, but I can't seem to even get "Hello, world!" to run when I try opening it in a terminal. I have "Learning Perl" from O'Reilly- but he seems to skip the execution part of getting Perl to run this script. I assumed Perl was standard on Linux 9- am I wrong? Here is what I wrote 
#! usr/bin/perl
print "Hello, world!\n";

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A screen pops up and quickly disappears where I can't even distinguish what it says.

Thanks,
Jason

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