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Perl /perl/ n.
[Practical Extraction and Report
Language, a.k.a. Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister] An
interpreted language developed by Larry Wall
(<larry@wall.org>, author of patch(1)
and
rn(1)
) and distributed over Usenet. Superficially resembles
awk, but is much hairier, including many facilities
reminiscent of sed(1)
and shells and a comprehensive Unix
system-call interface. Unix sysadmins, who are almost always
incorrigible hackers, generally consider it one of the
languages of choice. Perl has been described, in a parody of
a famous remark about lex(1)
, as the "Swiss-Army chainsaw"
of Unix programming. See also Camel Book,
TMTOWTDI.
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