Introduction to Perl
Alberto Garcia Gonzalez
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What is Perl?
● Interpreted programming language.
● Created by Larry Wall in 1987.
● Optimized for processing text files.
● Widely used in Unix system administration.
● Designed to be practical rather than elegant.
● Combines features from sh, awk and sed.
● Huge amount of modules available at cpan.org
● Influenced popular languages such as Python
and PHP.
● Popularity in decline, Perl 6 delayed.
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Basic features
● Modular
● Basic object-oriented programming support.
● Unicode support.
● Internationalization support.
● Powerful regular expression operators.
● Built-in debugger.
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