Perl

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Perl is a high-level, general-purpose programming language known for its powerful text-processing capabilities and use in system administration, web development, and scripting.

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instanceOf general-purpose programming language
high-level programming language
programming language
abbreviation Practical Extraction and Report Language
designedBy Larry Wall
executionModel interpreted
fileExtension .pl
.pm
.t
firstAppeared 1987
hasCommunity Perl Mongers
hasImplementation perl interpreter
hasMajorVersion Perl self-linksurface differs
surface form: Perl 4

Perl self-linksurface differs
surface form: Perl 5

Perl self-linksurface differs
surface form: Perl 6

Raku
influenced JavaScript
PHP
Python
Raku
Ruby
influencedBy C
Lisp programming language
surface form: Lisp

awk
GNU Sed
surface form: sed

shell script
latestMajorBranch Perl self-linksurface differs
surface form: Perl 5
license Artistic License 2.0
surface form: Artistic License

GNU General Public License
notableFeature comprehensive CPAN library
powerful text-processing capabilities
operatingSystem cross-platform
paradigm functional programming
imperative programming
object-oriented programming
scripting
primaryUse bioinformatics
network programming
scripting
system administration
text processing
web development
standardPackageRepository CPAN
supports Unicode
modules
object-oriented programming
regular expressions
tagline There is more than one way to do it
typingDiscipline duck typing
dynamic typing
website https://www.perl.org/

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Codex supportsLanguage Perl
Algol 68 influenced Perl
Ruby influencedBy Perl
Julia influencedBy Perl
PostgreSQL supportsLanguage Perl
this entity surface form: PL/Perl
PHP influencedBy Perl
PowerShell influencedBy Perl
Larry Wall notableWork Perl
Larry Wall associatedWith Perl
this entity surface form: CPAN ecosystem
XEmacs supportsLanguage Perl
Groovy influencedBy Perl
uWSGI supportsLanguage Perl
Perl hasMajorVersion Perl self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Perl 4
Perl hasMajorVersion Perl self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Perl 5
Perl hasMajorVersion Perl self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Perl 6
Perl latestMajorBranch Perl self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Perl 5
Artistic License 2.0 designedFor Perl
this entity surface form: Perl 5
Bugzilla requires Perl
this entity surface form: Perl interpreter
Ward programmingLanguageUsed Perl
subject surface form: Ward Cunningham
GTK (for graphical interface) bindingAvailableFor Perl
subject surface form: GTK
YAML influencedBy Perl
Active Server Pages (ASP) supportedScriptingLanguage Perl
subject surface form: Active Server Pages
this entity surface form: PerlScript
Martin Perl familyName Perl
Programming Perl subject Perl
this entity surface form: Perl (programming language)
Programming Perl isAbout Perl
this entity surface form: Perl programming