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Perl language structure
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<p>The structure of the <a href="/facts/Perl/fx31kjlT">Perl</a> programming language encompasses both the syntactical rules of the language and the general ways in which programs are organized. Perl's design philosophy is expressed in the commonly cited motto "<a href="/facts/There%2527s_more_than_one_way_to_do_it/11FCQMI1">there's more than one way to do it</a>". As a <a href="/facts/Programming_paradigm/7LwgRpB3">multi-paradigm</a>, dynamically <a href="/facts/Type_system/Tz0bAMS9">typed</a> language, Perl allows a great degree of flexibility in program design. Perl also encourages modularization; this has been attributed to the component-based design structure of its Unix roots[<i>when?</i>], and is responsible for the size of the <a href="/facts/CPAN/MB7Iv662">CPAN</a> archive, a community-maintained repository of more than 100,000 modules. </p>