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Randal L. Schwartz (born November 22, 1961), also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.He has written several books on the Perl programming language, and plays a promotional role within the Perl community.
Such programs are called "scripts". In this regard, perl is considered to be a scripting language. Typical operations performed by shell scripts include program execution, printing text, and file manipulation (copying, renaming, deleting, etc.). Being an interpreted language, perl has the following advantages: Platform independence
Learning Perl, also known as the llama book, [1] is a tutorial book for the Perl programming language, and is published by O'Reilly Media. The first edition (1993) was authored solely by Randal L. Schwartz , and covered Perl 4.
1960, IFIP WG 2.1, ISO [8] ALGOL 68: Application Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Concurrent Yes 1968, IFIP WG 2.1, GOST 27974-88, [9] Ateji PX: Parallel application No Yes No No No No pi calculus: No APL: Application, data processing: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Array-oriented, tacit: Yes 1989, ISO Assembly language: General Yes No No No No No
The structure of the Perl programming language encompasses both the syntactical rules of the language and the general ways in which programs are organized. Perl's design philosophy is expressed in the commonly cited motto "there's more than one way to do it".
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 .
The Perl virtual machine is a stack-based process virtual machine implemented as an opcodes interpreter which runs previously compiled programs written in the Perl language. The opcodes interpreter is a part of the Perl interpreter, which also contains a compiler (lexer, parser and optimizer) in one executable file, commonly /usr/bin/perl on various Unix-like systems or perl.exe on Microsoft ...
Perl provides three loop control keywords that all accept an optional loop label as an argument. If no label is specified, the keywords act on the innermost loop. Within nested loops, the use of labels enables control to move from an inner loop to an outer one, or out of the outer loop altogether.