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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 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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]

  6. Perl Data Language - Wikipedia

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    Perl Data Language (abbreviated PDL) is a set of free software array programming extensions to the Perl programming language. PDL extends the data structures built into Perl, to include large multidimensional arrays , and adds functionality to manipulate those arrays as vector objects.

  7. Comparison of programming languages - Wikipedia

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    Few languages ever become sufficiently popular that they are used by more than a few people, but professional programmers may use dozens of languages in a career. Most programming languages are not standardized by an international (or national) standard, even widely used ones, such as Perl or Standard ML (despite the name).

  8. 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.

  9. 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.