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Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, including "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language". Perl was developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language … See more
Perl was originally named "Pearl". Wall wanted to give the language a short name with positive connotations. It is also a Christian reference … See more
Early versions
Larry Wall began work on Perl in 1987, while employed as a programmer at Unisys; he released … See morePerl is dual licensed under both the Artistic License 1.0 and the GNU General Public License. Distributions are available for most operating systems. It is particularly prevalent on Unix and Unix-like systems, but it has been ported to most modern (and many obsolete) … See more
Philosophy
According to Wall, Perl has two slogans. The first is "There's more than one way to do it," commonly known as TMTOWTDI, (pronounced Tim … See moreThe Computer Language Benchmarks Game compares the performance of implementations of typical programming problems in several … See more
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