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programming language, and Perl was never meant to be difficult. In fact, Perl is one of the easiest languages to learn, especially given its scope and flexibility. Throughout this book you will learn how to avoid the stereotypical 'spaghetti code' and how to write programs that are both easy to write and easy to follow.
- Beginning Perl Book
What does this book cover? Installing Perl on Windows and...
- First Steps In Perl
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- Beginning Perl Book
1. What Is Perl? Perl is a free, open source programming language created by Larry Wall. Perl aims for adjectives like "practical" and "quick" and not so much words like "structured" or "elegant". A culture has built up around Perl where people create and give away modules, documentation, sample code,
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Perl stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language, or Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. Perl is a very useful programming language that is standard on almost all Unix systems.
Introduction to Perl Programming (presentation by Gregory Garretson, 12-06-04) Slide 17. Perl culture. In many ways, Perl is a language for "hackers", not for computer scientists. Perl is disdained by people who prefer languages like C, which are more rigid and closer to machine code.
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Perl is a general-purpose programming language, but it has outstanding strengths in processing text files: often one can easily achieve in a line or two of Perl code some text-processing task that might take half a page of C or Java. In consequence, Perl is heavily used for computer-centre system admin, and for Web