Perl The Write-Only Scripting Language for UNIX Mac and PC

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You can write this stuff but you can't debug it

Perl stands for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. It is an interpreted language, which means it can run from the command line without a compiler or linker and it is a scripting language, which means unlike compiled languages it can also run from a pre-written list of instructions or a "script."

Perl is a very popular utility on web servers because of its specialized functions for text processing. One of Perl's best and most relied-upon features is its ability to search and categorize very large amounts of text information, and also to modify text files with extremely complex search and replace functions.

Perl runs on every major desktop and server platform and is compatible with a wide variety of both commercial and open source database and web server platforms. Perl is very common on Linux and UNIX web servers, and is usually installed by default on most distributions of Linux.

Perl News (Can we read it yet?)

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