Perl
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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. In the 1990s it became very popular for web scripting, though other languages have gained more popularity for this purpose lately.
Programs in Perl are usually stored in plain-text files, to be run by the Perl interpreter.
