PERL

Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more. What is Perl? Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language. Though Perl is not officially an acronym but few people used it as Practical Extraction and Report Language. It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors. Perl is an Open Source software, licensed under its Artistic License, or the GNU General Public License (GPL). Perl was created by Larry Wall. Perl 1.0 was released to usenet's alt.comp.sources in 1987 At the time of writing thi tutorial, latest version of perl is 5.16.2 Perl is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. PC Magazine named Perl a finalist for its 1998 Technical Excellence Award in the Development Tool category. Perl Features Perl takes the best features from other languages, such as C, awk, sed, ...