About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Just another Perl hacker, Larry Wall, Parrot virtual machine, CPAN, Perl 6, Perl language structure, Perl Compatible Regular Expressions, Perl module, Regular expression examples, Perl 6 rules, Schwartzian transform, Plain Old Documentation, Perl OpenGL, Perl control structures, Yet Another Perl Conference, Perl virtual machine, LAMP, Test Anything Protocol, Rakudo Perl, Pugs, Sympa, Parser Grammar Engine, Leaning toothpick syndrome, Autovivification, XS, Mod perl, PerlMonks, Black Perl, Perl Mongers, Test:: More, Qrpff, PSGI, Obfuscated Perl Contest, Fat comma, Spaceship operator, PerlScript, There's more than one way to do it, Xuheki, Parrot intermediate representation, Perl Golf Apocalypse, XSQL, The Perl Foundation, Parrot assembly language, Punie, PONIE, White Camel award, Mod parrot, Perl package manager, Waterbed theory, Perl Object-Oriented Persistence. 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 undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular amongst programmers. Larry Wall continues to oversee development of the core language, and its upcoming version, Perl 6. Perl borrows features from other programming languages including C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, and sed. The language provides powerful text processing facilities without the arbitrary data length limits of many contemporary Unix tools, facilitating easy manipulation of text files. Perl gained widespread popularity in the late 1990s as a CGI scripting language, in part due to its parsing abilities. In addition to CGI, Perl is used for graphics programming, system administration, network programming, finance, bioinformatics, and other applicatio...
