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Perl

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  1. 1
    A family of high-level programming languages, particularly used for text processing.

    "Perl attracted the attention of Unix system administrators, who needed a language that was easier to use than the C programming language and more powerful than scripting languages such as Borne^([sic]) and C-shell."

Etymology

A respelling of its original name Pearl, a reference to Matthew 13:46. A common backronymic explanation is “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language”.

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