Penguin
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An Acronym for Stream EDitor

A very simple ProgrammingLanguage geared towards text manipulation for files larger than the avaliable RAM.

Perl borrowed many concepts from sed(1). Non-trivial programs in SED also have the benefit of making Perl and awk(1) look like well structured, human readible, sane, high level languages.


CategoryProgrammingLanguages, CategorySpecialPurposeProgrammingLanguages