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Perl is a computer programming language that has been in use since 1987. It was initially developed for use on the UNIX operating system, but it has since been ported to more operating systems than just about any other programming language (with the possible exception of C).

Perl was written by Larry Wall to solve a particular problem, but instead of writing something that would just solve the question at hand, Wall wrote a general tool that he could use to solve other problems later.

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smallworlnd 11mo ago

Thankful to not have to write Perl anymore 😂

ever4st 11mo ago

What makes Perl different from many other computer languages is that Wall has a background in linguistics and brought a lot of this knowledge to bear in the design of Perl’s syntax. This means that a lot of the time you can say things in a more natural way in Perl and the code will mean what you expect it to mean.