A pragmatic scripting language famous for text processing and CPAN.
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A pragmatic scripting language famous for text processing and CPAN.
GitHub Linguist classifies Perl as a programming language, typically using extensions such as .pl, .al, .cgi, .fcgi, .perl, .ph.
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A pragmatic scripting language famous for text processing and CPAN.
Common extensions include .pl, .al, .cgi, .fcgi, .perl.
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