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I was jus goin through a ebook on perl....it says u get binary installation for both unix and windows.....doesnt perl come already bundeled with unix ?cause i never installed any perl from binary........but i am able to execute perl programs......

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Most *nix distributions that I know of come bundled with perl. But you may at some point want to upgrade perl and you will need to either compile or get a package.

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