Name: Perl
Details: The scripting language Perl 5
Extension: .pl
Line Comment: #
String Literal: "
String Literal Escape: \
Character Literal: '
Character Literal Escape: \

Shebang: #!/usr/bin/perl\n\n
Before Named Paragraph Expansion: \n{\n
After Named Paragraph Expansion: }\n
Start Definition: %S =
End Definition: \n;\n

# In its usual zany way, Perl recognises the same #line syntax as C, thus in
# principle overloading its comment notation #:

Line Marker: #line %d "%f"\n