Applescript Terminal Command Problem

Hilo
I am making an application that Alphabetizes words.
Everything works except that whenever I get to this part -
do shell script "cd ~/Public/Alphabetizer; ls -l *.pl; chmod +x Alphabetizer.pl; ./Alphabetizer.pl"
does anyone know why nothing happens, and if you do,
can you tell what to type to show what happens on terminal using applescript?
^_^ greatly appreciated

What do you expect to happen? That command does not involve Terminal at all. If you want to check the stdout from the shell commands, you could use the Results pane and/or the Event Log in Script Editor. Or redirect the output to a file.
If you want an actual Terminal window, you need to send the commands to Terminal, rather than directly to a shell. E.g.,
tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script "ls -l"
end tell
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