Help with Hello world

[David Leathers]

Hi 

I'm using RH8.0 and trying to run my first program.  Feel kind of stupid right now but 
I can not get this to work.

In vi I did #!/usr/bin/perl
               print"Hello World";

Saved file as first

did chmod 755 and then ./first
I get no error but Hello World does not print on the screen.  Could someone tell me 
what is wrong with this?

Thanks