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  2. Perl - Wikipedia

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    Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.Though Perl is not officially an acronym, [9] there are various backronyms in use, including "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language".

  3. Perl 5 version history - Wikipedia

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    Perl is an open-source programming language whose first version, 1.0, was released in 1987. The following table contains the Perl 5 version history , showing its release versions. Not all versions are covered yet.

  4. Outline of Perl - Wikipedia

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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Perl programming language: Perl – high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, multi-paradigm, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. [1]

  5. Perl language structure - Wikipedia

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    The Perl language includes a specialized syntax for writing regular expressions (RE, or regexes), and the interpreter contains an engine for matching strings to regular expressions. The regular-expression engine uses a backtracking algorithm, extending its capabilities from simple pattern matching to string capture and substitution.

  6. Larry Wall - Wikipedia

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    Wall developed the Perl interpreter and language while working for System Development Corporation, which later became part of Burroughs and then Unisys. [5] He is the co-author of Programming Perl (often referred to as the Camel Book and published by O'Reilly), which is the definitive resource for Perl programmers; and edited the Perl Cookbook.

  7. Programming Perl - Wikipedia

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    Programming Perl, best known as the Camel Book among programmers, [1] is a book about writing programs using the Perl programming language, revised as several editions (1991–2012) to reflect major language changes since Perl version 4.

  8. Timeline of programming languages - Wikipedia

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    none (unique language) 1951 Intermediate Programming Language Arthur Burks: Short Code 1951 Boehm unnamed coding system Corrado Böhm: CPC Coding scheme 1951 Klammerausdrücke Konrad Zuse: Plankalkül 1951 Stanislaus (Notation) Fritz Bauer: none (unique language) 1951 Sort Merge Generator: Betty Holberton: none (unique language) 1952

  9. Raku (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    The Raku design process was first announced on 19 July 2000, on the fourth day of that year's Perl Conference, [10] by Larry Wall in his State of the Onion 2000 talk. [11] At that time, the primary goals were to remove "historical warts" from the language; "easy things should stay easy, hard things should get easier, and impossible things should get hard"; and a general cleanup of the internal ...