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Perl is implemented as a core interpreter, written in C, together with a large collection of modules, written in Perl and C. As of 2010, the interpreter is 150,000 lines of C code and compiles to a 1 MB executable on typical machine architectures. Alternatively, the interpreter can be compiled to a link library and embedded in other programs.
The Perl interpreter is a C program, so in principle there is no obstacle to calling from Perl to C. However, the XS interface is complex [why?] and highly technical, and using it requires some understanding of the interpreter.
Hamilton C shell (a C shell for Windows) ksh (a standard Unix shell, written by David Korn) Nushell (a cross-platform shell) PowerShell (.NET-based CLI) rc (shell for Plan 9) Rexx; sh (standard Unix shell, by Stephen R. Bourne) TACL (Tandem Advanced Command Language) Windows batch language (input for COMMAND.COM or CMD.EXE) zsh (a Unix shell)
Edison Design Group: provides production-quality front end compilers for C, C++, and Java (a number of the compilers listed on this page use front end source code from Edison Design Group [111]). Additionally, Edison Design Group makes their proprietary software available for research uses.
#!usr/bin/perl – called the "shebang line", after the hash symbol (#) and ! (bang) at the beginning of the line. It is also known as the interpreter directive. # – the number sign, also called the hash symbol. In Perl, the # indicates the start of a comment. It instructs perl to ignore the rest of the line and not execute it as script code.
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.
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.
An interpreter might well use the same lexical analyzer and parser as the compiler and then interpret the resulting abstract syntax tree. Example data type definitions for the latter, and a toy interpreter for syntax trees obtained from C expressions are shown in the box.