Well we certainly are glad you stopped by. Whats the relevence to perl? Well perl is one of the latest in a long and noble line of scripting languages, and is probably one of the most seriously used. We are as a group fairly interested in scripting languages as a whole, and while our thoughts about the ones you mention are probably on the whole less than positive we are sympathetic and well used to discussing the differences between scripting languages and compiled languages etc. O'Reiley wrote an article once about post modern languages, and how he considers things like Perl and Ruby to be of this class that perhaps you may find interesting.

Again, as a group we have considerable knowledge and expertise in many scripting languages and platforms. If your area of interest is Scripting languages then maybe you should aquaint yourself better with Perl. We'd be sure to help you out and would welcome you to the community. C'mon, sign up, have fun, laugh, write an Acme:: module, become familiar with the best supported widest used most portable scripting language there is.

And yes I stand by that last sentence. Show me a scripting language with the power of CPAN at your fingertips and I might consider otherwise. :-)

Regarding "hello world"...

perl -e "print 'hello world'"
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Maybe you aught to dig a little deeper. You may find its addictive though :-)