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PERL
PERL Practical Extraction Report Language is a computer language. It is used to do specific administrator tasks, often involving web servers. For instance, this language would be used to write code that would process Internet surveys.by Melissa Creech
PERL- Practical Extraction and Report Language, Perl is a
programming language developed by Larry Wall, especially designed for processing text.
Because of its strong text
processing abilities, Perl has become one of the most popular languages for writing CGI
scripts. Perl is an interpretive language, which makes it easy to build and test simple
programs. For a tutorial check:
http://library.thinkquest.org/26297/perl/perl-basics1.shtml
by John Owrey
PERL
Practical Extraction and Report Language
Perl was developed as an open source project started by Larry Wall in 1987. It is a scripting language that is used under UNIX. It provides access to all operating system calls but is interpreted not compiled. This makes it faster to code and easier to debug than writing in something like C, but it runs more slowly. This is usually not a concern for the type of work for which scripts are usually used.
by Paulette Sallas
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