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Reference
Glossary
PerlPractical extraction and reporting language, or Perl, is a scripting
language first created by Larry Wall to be used as duct tape for
programming with the Unix operating system. Due to its immense power for
handling piles of text and, consequently, as a common gateway interface
(CGI) scripting language, Perl became very popular among server-side
scripters. Perl has a large community of contributing programmers and,
what's more, costs nothing and is free to redistribute. These
circumstances have helped Perl evolve from a scripting language used to
generate server stats into a language many use for database
administration. All along Perl has maintained its zaniness. Most Perl
documentation reads as though written by early vaudeville comedians.
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