Perl vs C/C++

Perl is a general purpose, high level interpreted and dynamic programming language. It was developed by Larry Wall, in 1987. There is no official acronym for the Perl, but still, the most used acronym is &#x201cPractical Extraction and Reporting Language&#x201d. Some of the programmers also refer to Perl as the &#x201cPathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister&#x201d Or &#x201cPractically Everything Really Likable&#x201d. The acronym &#x201cPractical Extraction and Reporting Language&#x201d is used widely because Perl was originally developed for the text processing like extracting the required information from a specified text file and for converting the text file into a different form. It supports both procedural and Object-Oriented programming.
C++ is a general purpose programming language and widely used nowadays for competitive programming. It has imperative, object-oriented and generic programming features. C++ runs on lots of platforms like Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac etc.
Below are some major differences between Perl and c/c++:

Program for addition of two numbers in C++ and Perl 
 

// C++ program to add two numbers
#include <stdio.h>

// Function to perform addition
// operation
int add(int x, int y)
{
    int res = x + y;
    return res;
}

// Driver Code
int main()
{
    int choice = 3;
    int choice2 = 5;

    int res = add(choice, choice2);
    printf("The result is %d", res);
    return 0;
}

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Perl program to add two numbers
$choice = 3;
$choice2 = 5;
$res = add($choice, $choice2);
print "The result is $res";

# Subroutine to perform 
# addition operation
sub add
{
    ($x, $y) = @_;
    $res = $x + $y;
    return $res; 
} 

Output: 
 

The result is 8