Perl
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* [http://www.cpan.org/ CPAN: source of Perl modules and libraries] | * [http://www.cpan.org/ CPAN: source of Perl modules and libraries] | ||
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Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.
Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, such as: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, and (more whimsicallly) Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier.