Perl
Perl, aka Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister, is an actively used programming language created in 1987. Perl is a family of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. The languages in this family include Perl 5 and Perl 6. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, including "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language". Read more on Wikipedia...
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- Perl ranks in the top 1% of languages
- the Perl website
- the Perl wikipedia page
- Perl first appeared in 1987
- Perl was created by Larry Wall
- file extensions for Perl include pl, pm, t, pod, al, cgi, fcgi, perl, ph, plx and psgi
- tryitonline has an online Perl repl
- See also: pearl, c, lisp, pascal, sed, coffeescript, ecmascript, falcon, groovy, javascript, julia, lpc, perl-6, php, python, ruby, windows-powershell, unix, bourne-shell, regex, unicode, haskell, parrot-vm, dtrace, json, awk, fortran, s-expressions, yacc, bison, sql, html, xs, rfc, jvm-vm, apl, perl-data-language, pod
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Example code from the Hello World Collection:
# Hello world in perl print "Hello World!\n";
Example code from Linguist:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl print "Perl\n"
Example code from Wikipedia:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use IO::Handle; my ( $remaining, $total ); $remaining = $total = shift(@ARGV); STDOUT->autoflush(1); while ( $remaining ) { printf ( "Remaining %s/%s \r", $remaining--, $total ); sleep 1; } print "\n";
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Last updated August 9th, 2020