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       About Perl
       By: Connor Date: April 4, 2011, 4:11 pm
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       Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic
       programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry
       Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to
       make report processing easier.[3] Since then, it has undergone
       many changes and revisions and become widely popular amongst
       programmers. Larry Wall continues to oversee development of the
       core language, and its upcoming version, Perl 6. Perl borrows
       features from other programming languages including C, shell
       scripting (sh), AWK, and sed.[4] The language provides powerful
       text processing facilities without the arbitrary data length
       limits of many contemporary Unix tools,[5] facilitating easy
       manipulation of text files. Perl gained widespread popularity in
       the late 1990s as a CGI scripting language, in part due to its
       parsing abilities.[6]
       In addition to CGI, Perl is used for graphics programming,
       system administration, network programming, finance,
       bioinformatics, and other applications. Perl is nicknamed "the
       Swiss Army chainsaw of programming languages" due to its
       flexibility and power.[7] It is also referred to as the "duct
       tape that holds the Internet together", in reference to its
       ubiquity and perceived inelegance.[8]
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