In addition to CGI, Perl 5 is used for system administration, network programming, finance, bioinformatics, and other applications, such as for GUIs. Perl 5 gained widespread popularity in the late 1990s as a CGI scripting language, in part due to its powerful regular expression and string parsing abilities.
The Perl languages borrow features from other programming languages including C, sh, AWK, and sed They provide text processing facilities without the arbitrary data-length limits of many contemporary Unix command line tools. Both languages continue to be developed independently by different development teams and liberally borrow ideas from each other. Raku, which began as a redesign of Perl 5 in 2000, eventually evolved into a separate language. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions. Perl was developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, including "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language".
"Perl" refers to Perl 5, but from 2000 to 2019 it also referred to its redesigned "sister language", Perl 6, before the latter's name was officially changed to Raku in October 2019.
Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages.
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Artistic License 1.0 or GNU General Public License ĪWK, BASIC, C, C++, Lisp, sed, Unix shell ĬoffeeScript, Groovy, JavaScript, Julia, LPC, PHP, Python, Raku, Ruby, PowerShell
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