- A dynamic interpreted scripting language famous for text-processing abilities.
- Developed in 1987 by Larry Wall.
- When someone says perl usually it's version 5 (version 6 is called RAKU).
- Offen reffered to as
glue language
(networking, databases, automation, admin scripts, string parsing). - Commonly used to write CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts that allows webservers to communicate to external programs.
- Has powerful
string parsing
abilities.
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