Perl
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| Paradigm | multi-paradigm: functional, imperative, object-oriented (class-based), reflective, procedural, event-driven, generic |
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| Designed by | Larry Wall |
| Developer | Larry Wall |
| First appeared | December 18, 1987 |
| Stable release |
5.24.1 / January 14, 2017
5.22.3 / January 14, 2017 |
| Preview release |
5.25.9 / January 20, 2017
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| Typing discipline | Dynamic |
| Implementation language | C |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| License | Artistic License 1.0 or GNU General Public License |
| Filename extensions | .pl .pm .t .pod |
| Website | www |
| Influenced by | |
| AWK, Smalltalk 80, Lisp, C, C++, sed, Unix shell, Pascal | |
| Influenced | |
| CoffeeScript,ECMAScript/JavaScript, Falcon, Groovy,Julia, LPC, Perl 6, PHP, Python, Ruby, Windows PowerShell | |
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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, the best-known being "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. 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 script (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 unsurpassedregular expression and string parsing abilities.
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