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 February 18th, 2020

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