Black Perl is an infamous piece of Perl poetry. It was posted to Usenet on April 1, 1990. It is written in Perl 3 and will not parse under Perl 5 (to the apparent relief of Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language, as the Camel book claims). Multiple independent updates to make it parsable in Perl 5 have been published. The full text of the poem is reproduced below.

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  • Black Perl is an infamous piece of Perl poetry. It was posted to Usenet on April 1, 1990. It is written in Perl 3 and will not parse under Perl 5 (to the apparent relief of Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language, as the Camel book claims). Multiple independent updates to make it parsable in Perl 5 have been published. The full text of the poem is reproduced below.
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  • Black Perl is an infamous piece of Perl poetry. It was posted to Usenet on April 1, 1990. It is written in Perl 3 and will not parse under Perl 5 (to the apparent relief of Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language, as the Camel book claims). Multiple independent updates to make it parsable in Perl 5 have been published. The full text of the poem is reproduced below.
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  • Black Perl
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