Notes on  PERL 

[Practical Extraction and Report Language, a.k.a. Pathologically
Eclectic Rubbish Lister] An interpreted language developed by Larry
Wall, author of patch(1) and rn(1)). Superficially resembles AWK,
but is much hairier, including many facilities reminiscent of sed(1)
and shells and a comprehensive Unix system-call interface. Unix
sysadmins, who are almost always incorrigible hackers, generally
consider it one of the LANGUAGES OF CHOICE, and it is by far the
most widely used tool for making `live' web pages via CGI. Perl has
been described, in a parody of a famous remark about lex(1), as the
SWISS-ARMY CHAINSAW of Unix programming. Though Perl is very
useful, it would be a stretch to describe it as pretty or ELEGANT;
people who like clean, spare design generally prefer PYTHON. See
also CAMEL BOOK, TMTOWTDI.

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