Perl Programming
Perl is a family of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. The languages in this family include Perl 5 and Perl 6. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, such as: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier.
Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions. The latest
major stable revision of Perl 5 is 5.20, released in May 2014. Perl 6,
which began as a redesign of Perl 5 in 2000, eventually evolved into a
separate language. Both languages continue to be developed independently
by different development teams and liberally borrow ideas from one
another.
The Perl languages borrow features from other programming languages including C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, and sed. They provide powerful text processing facilities without the arbitrary data-length limits of many contemporary Unix commandline tools, facilitating easy manipulation of text files. Perl 5 gained widespread popularity in the late 1990s as a CGI scripting language, in part due to its parsing abilities.
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