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Perl borrows features from other programming languages including C, sh, AWK, and sed. [1] It provides text processing facilities without the arbitrary data-length limits of many contemporary Unix command line tools. [16] Perl is a highly expressive programming language: source code for a given algorithm can be short and highly compressible. [17 ...
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 ...
qrpff is a Perl script created by Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz of the MIT SIPB. [1] It performs DeCSS in six or seven lines. The name itself is an encoding of "decss" in rot-13. The algorithm was rewritten 77 times to condense it down to six lines. [2] In fact, two versions of qrpff exist: a short version (6 lines) and a fast version (7 lines).
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.
As of 2010, the standard module is generally regarded as deprecated; [2] often recommended libraries are pcre (with full support for PCRE) and re (which is not as complete but claims better performance and provides frontends to popular syntaxes: PCRE, Perl, Posix, Emacs, shell globbing). Perl: Perl.com
Logged-in users can type in anything they want, and it appears for all users to see. Talk in the chatterbox is often Perl related, and various tools (written in Perl) have been written to improve the chatterbox experience. Some come to PerlMonks primarily for the chatterbox. Others find the chatterbox distracting and turn it off.
The common phrase "Only perl can parse Perl" is attributed to Tom Christiansen. [10] It is not inspired by "Only tex can understand TeX ", but rather refers to Perl's unique capability, akin to a typedef or a #define in C or C++, where it can modify its syntactic rules dynamically while running.
#!/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.