Initial import of Perl5. The king is dead; long live the king!

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+use Thread;
+
+sub counter {
+$count = 10;
+while ($count--) {
+    sleep 1;
+    print "ping $count\n";
+}
+}
+
+sub reader {
+    my $line;
+    while ($line = <STDIN>) {
+	print "reader: $line";
+    }
+    print "End of input in reader\n";
+    return 0;
+}
+
+print <<'EOT';
+This test starts up a thread to read and echo whatever is typed on
+the keyboard/stdin, line by line, while the main thread counts down
+to zero. The test stays running until both the main thread has
+finished counting down and the I/O thread has seen end-of-file on
+the terminal/stdin.
+EOT
+
+$r = new Thread \&counter;
+
+&reader;
+
+__END__
+
+
+$count = 10;
+while ($count--) {
+    sleep 1;
+    print "ping $count\n";
+}