Editing Black Perl (section)

{{short description|Code poem}}
{{distinguish|Black Pearl (disambiguation){{!}}Black Pearl}}
'''"Black Perl"''' is a [[Code poetry|code poem]] written using the [[Perl]] [[programming language]]. It was posted anonymously to [[Usenet]] on April 1, 1990,<ref name=":0" /> and is popular among Perl programmers{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} as a piece of [[Perl#Perl pastimes|Perl poetry]]. Written in Perl 3, the poem is able to be [[Execution (computing)|executed]] as a program. 

"Black Perl" has been discussed in several scholarly works,<ref>{{cite thesis |id={{ProQuest|305162869}} |last=Segura |first=Cynthia Anne |date=2004 |title=Perls of wisdom: Computer language and Perl poetry }}{{pn|date=February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kerr |first=Chris |title=Poetry and contemporary visual culture: = Lyrik und zeitgenössische Visuelle Kultur |last2=Holden |first2=Daniel |date=2023 |publisher=De Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-129933-4 |editor-last=Korecka |editor-first=Magdalena Elisabeth |series=Poetry in the digital age |location=Berlin |page=172 |chapter=Optimizing Code for Performance: Reading ./code --poetry |editor-last2=Vorrath |editor-first2=Wiebke}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tomasula |first1=Steve |title=Our Tools Make Us (And Our Literature) Post: Essai édité par Jean-Yves Pellegrin (Université Paris-Sorbonne) |journal=Transatlantica |date=30 December 2014 |issue=2 |doi=10.4000/transatlantica.7102 |doi-access=free }}</ref> and is considered an example of [[generative literature]], a genre of [[electronic literature]].