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Perl by Example
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Perl by Example

by Ellie Quigley
December 2014
Beginner
888 pages
25h 23m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 1. The Practical Extraction and Report Language

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1.1 What Is Perl?

“Laziness, impatience, and hubris. Great Perl programmers embrace those virtues.”

—Larry Wall

Perl is an all-purpose, open-source (free software) interpreted language maintained and enhanced by a core development team called the Perl Porters. It is used primarily as a scripting language and runs on a number of platforms. Although initially designed for the UNIX operating system, Perl is renowned for its portability and now comes bundled with most operating systems, including RedHat Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Macintosh, and more. Due to its versatility, Perl is often referred ...

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