add perl solutions for challenge-088:

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diff --git a/challenge-088/alexander-pankoff/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-088/alexander-pankoff/perl/ch-1.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+use v5.20;
+use utf8;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use feature qw(say signatures);
+no warnings 'experimental::signatures';
+
+use List::Util qw(product);
+
+{
+    my @N = ( 5, 2, 1, 4, 3 );
+    my @M = array_of_product(@N);
+    say '(' . join( ', ', @M ) . ')';
+}
+
+sub array_of_product(@arr) {
+
+    # we first calculate the product of all array elements
+    my $total = product(@arr);
+
+    # each item in the output is then the result of factoring out the
+    # corresponding element from the input list from that total
+    my @out = map { $total / $_ } @arr;
+
+    return @out;
+}
diff --git a/challenge-088/alexander-pankoff/perl/ch-2.pl b/challenge-088/alexander-pankoff/perl/ch-2.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+use v5.20;
+use utf8;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use feature qw(say signatures);
+no warnings 'experimental::signatures';
+
+{
+    my $MATRIX = [
+        [ 1,  2,  3,  4 ],     #
+        [ 5,  6,  7,  8 ],     #
+        [ 9,  10, 11, 12 ],    #
+        [ 13, 14, 15, 16 ],    #
+    ];
+
+    say join( ', ', spriral_matrix($MATRIX) )
+}
+
+sub spriral_matrix($matrix) {
+    my @matrix = @$matrix;
+
+    return () if !@matrix;
+
+    # get top and bottom row  an remove them from the input
+    my ( $top, $bot );
+    ( $top, @matrix ) = @$matrix;
+    ( $bot, @matrix ) = ( $matrix[-1], @matrix[ 0 ... ( $#matrix - 1 ) ] );
+
+    # get left and right side from the remaining rows
+    my @left_side  = map { $_->[0] } @matrix;
+    my @right_side = map { $_->[-1] } @matrix;
+
+    # remove left and right side from the matrix
+    @matrix = map { [ @{$_}[ 1 ... ( $#$_ - 1 ) ] ] } @matrix;
+
+    return ( @$top, @right_side, reverse( @{ $bot // [] } ),
+        reverse(@left_side), spriral_matrix( \@matrix ) );
+}