Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted programming language created by Larry Wall, who began work on it in 1987 while employed as a programmer at Unisys and released version 1.0 on December 18, 1987, as a general-purpose Unix scripting language meant to make report processing easier. Perl's powerful built-in text and regular-expression handling made it a natural fit for early World Wide Web development in the 1990s, particularly for CGI scripts, and it became widely nicknamed the duct tape of the Internet for the role it played gluing together early web services. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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First Released ParadigmMulti-paradigm: procedural, imperative and functional scripting 2 SignificancePerl has long been known as the duct tape of the Internet, and many large web based applications were written solely in Perl during the 1990s and 2000s; it runs on over one hundred platforms, from portables to mainframes, and remains suited to both rapid prototyping and large scale development. Its design philosophy, that easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible, shaped a generation of scripting languages that followed it. 3 Classification
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Mojolicious, Frameworks Verified en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojolicious: "it is written in the Perl programming language."
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"Perl takes hashes ('associative arrays') from AWK and regular expressions from sed." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl
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- Wikidata Q42478, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q42478 P571 (inception)
- Wikidata Q42478 P7078 (typing discipline)
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had changed to resemble that of Perl, but was simpler, more limited, and less consistent
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According to the creator, Ruby was influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, BASIC, and Lisp.
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