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Black Perl
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<p>"Black Perl" is a <a href="/facts/Code_poetry/l4jn9mFg">code poem</a> written using the <a href="/facts/Perl/fx31kjlT">Perl</a> <a href="/facts/Programming_language/cWTYbgWa">programming language</a>. It was posted anonymously to <a href="/facts/Usenet/lYJWFBR6">Usenet</a> on April 1, 1990, and is popular among Perl programmers as a piece of <a href="/facts/Perl/fx31kjlT">Perl poetry</a>. Written in Perl 3, the poem is able to be <a href="/facts/Execution_(computing)/1fyfGMFm">executed</a> as a program. </p><p>"Black Perl" has been discussed in several scholarly works, and is considered an example of <a href="/facts/Generative_literature/10eLfteD">generative literature</a>, a genre of <a href="/facts/Electronic_literature/1SsosLvG">electronic literature</a>. </p>