ePerl interprets an ASCII file bristled with Perl 5 program
statements by evaluating the Perl 5 code while passing
through the plain ASCII data.
It can operate in various ways: As a stand-alone Unix
filter or integrated Perl 5 module for general file
generation tasks and as a powerful Webserver scripting
language for dynamic HTML page programming.
The ePerl program itself is a fully functional Perl
interpreter because internally it makes use of the original
Perl interpreter library (libperl.a), so ePerl is based on
the installed Perl system. The only noticeable difference
to the user between the program eperl and perl is the
source file format they use.