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Perl is a family of high-level general-purpose interpreted dynamic programming languages. The languages in this family include Perl 5 and Perl 6.Though Perl is not officially an acronym there are various backronyms in use such as: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then it has undergone many changes and revisions.

designer
Larry Wall
developer
Larry Wall
influenced
JavaScript, PHP, Python (programming language), Ruby (programming language), Windows PowerShell, Falcon (programming language), ECMAScript, LPC (programming language), Perl 6, Qore_Language
influenced by
AWK, C (programming language), Lisp (programming language), Pascal (programming language), Sed, Smalltalk, Unix shell, C++
latest release date
2014-01-07
latest release version
5.18.2
license
Artistic License, GNU General Public License

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