Definitions for PERL
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WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Perlnoun

   A text-oriented programming language, widely used in Internet applications.

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Perl

   Perl is a family of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. The languages in this family include Perl 5 and Perl 6. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, such as: Practical Extraction and Reporting 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. The latest major stable revision of Perl 5 is 5.18, released in May 2013. Perl 6, which began as a redesign of Perl 5 in 2000, eventually evolved into a separate language. Both languages continue to be developed independently by different development teams and liberally borrow ideas from one another. The Perl languages borrow features from other programming languages including C, shell scripting, AWK, and sed. They provide powerful text processing facilities without the arbitrary data-length limits of many contemporary Unix tools, facilitating easy manipulation of text files. Perl 5 gained widespread popularity in the late 1990s as a CGI scripting language, in part due to its parsing abilities. In addition to CGI, Perl 5 is used for graphics programming, system administration, network programming, finance, bioinformatics, and other applications. It's nicknamed "the Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages" because of its flexibility and power, and possibly also because of its perceived "ugliness". In 1998, it was also referred to as the "duct tape that holds the Internet together", in reference to its ubiquity and perceived inelegance.

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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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1. PERL

   What does PERL stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the PERL acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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1. PERL

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Perl is ranked #14006 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Perl surname appeared 2,150 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Perl.
   
   94.8% or 2,039 total occurrences were White.
   2.4% or 52 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.3% or 29 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.7% or 17 total occurrences were Black.

How to pronounce PERL?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say PERL in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of PERL in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of PERL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of PERL in a Sentence

1. Keith Bostic:

   Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Perl
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=PERL
3. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Perl
4. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html