Perl

Perl, also Practical Extraction and Report Language (a backronym, see below), is an interpreted procedural programming language designed by Larry Wall. Perl borrows features from C, shell scripting (sh), awk, sed, and (to a lesser extent) many other programming languages.

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The perlintro(1) man page states:

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"Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more.

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►	Introduction
►	Overview
►	Language structure
►	Language design
►	Opinion
►	History
►	CPAN
►	Name
►	Fun with Perl
►	See also
►	External links
►	Books
►	References

►	FR: Perl (langage)

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