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| Newer page: | version 11 | Last edited on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 5:41:21 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 10 | Last edited on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 4:37:18 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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-The ProgrammingLanguage itself, as opposed to the interpreter __perl__, which is written a lowercase "p". %%%
-- http://www.perl.org/press/glossary.html
+The ProgrammingLanguage itself, as opposed to the interpreter __perl__, which is written a lowercase "p" -- [see the glossary |
http://www.perl.org/press/glossary.html].
The name stands for __P__ractical __E__xtraction and __R__eporting __L__anguage but also __P__athologically __E__clectic __R__ubbish __L__ister - pick one, both are official, and both are backronyms.
See PerlOneLiners for one end of the spectrum of the language's application.
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;: Sites making use of [Perl] include Amazon.com, Wired, Slashdot.org, Alexa and the Internet Wayback machine, a hundred terabyte archive which is five times larger than the the Library of Congress.
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-CategoryProgrammingLanguages, CategoryImperativeProgrammingLanguages
+CategoryProgrammingLanguages, CategoryVeryHighLevelProgrammingLanguages
