Major subsystems
Parser and lexer used to be the hardest part of Perl to understand.
Structures used for data types are complex and vaguely OO.
The dispatcher runs the next instruction for the Perl virtual machine.
I/O is done through PerlIO abstractions, soon to be extended.
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