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        Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 111. Chapters: Perl, Python, PHP, AWK, GNU Compiler Collection, Sed, ScriptBasic, Emacs Lisp, Netwide Assembler, Parrot virtual machine, Cygwin, Lua, Pike, Objective Caml, Gauche, Clean, CWEB, GNU Compiler for Java, Free Pascal, Yoix, Clang, Flex lexical analyser, Glasgow Haskell Compiler, FreeBASIC, EiffelStudio, Low Level Virtual Machine, GNU Guile, MinGW, Tiny C Compiler, MiniD, SmallBASIC, Watcom C/C++ compiler, CLACL, Quex, Chomski, Visual Prolog, Extensible Embeddable Language, Sun Studio, ECLiPSe, Portable C Compiler, GNAT, Ruby MRI, Open64, Ikarus, ANTLR, WxBasic, PCASTL, Pugs, HipHop for PHP, Boehm garbage collector, CMU Common Lisp, DJGPP, CPython, SWI-Prolog, Pawn, OpenCOBOL, Unladen Swallow, QB64, V8, Pic Micro Pascal, Cc65, GNU Assembler, Algebraic Logic Functional programming language, Limbo, Steel Bank Common Lisp, GNU Binutils, Rubinius, Turbo51, Agda, BDS C, ROSE, Kaffe, Boo, TenDRA Compiler, Maxine Virtual Machine, Ferite, ConceptGCC, Clozure CL, CLISP, Php4delphi, Gold, Macintosh Common Lisp, UWIN, Standard ML of New Jersey, Small Device C Compiler, Pyrex, Amsterdam Compiler Kit, Gambit, Stalin, Gfortran, Romcc, Vbcc, Jikes, Object REXX, GNU Common Lisp, Strawberry Prolog, GNU Prolog, Parser, Ragel, Mk, F2c, Helium, ICI, Agena, SmartEiffel, GNU linker, GPUTILS, Larceny, MTASC, Squib, RScheme, JamVM, DJGCC, Yasm, LispMe, Ypsilon, XRuby, Open CIL JIT, Goo, JScheme, Embeddable Common Lisp, HI-TECH Software, CLPython, YAP Prolog, Yhc, G95, Grammatica, Swfmill, HBasic, Pocket Scheme, BCX, IL2CPU, Links, GNU Interpreter for Java, ARLOGO, Berkeley Yacc, SharpOS AOT, Boomerang. Excerpt: 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. Since then, it has unde...