Perl

The Swiss Army Chainsaw

First appeared: 1987Designed by: Larry Wall

A dynamic scripting language renowned for text processing, system administration, and the CPAN ecosystem.

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Multi-paradigmProceduralOOP

print "Hello, World!\n";

Created by Larry Wall in 1987 for report processing. Perl 5 (1994) became the workhorse of the web. Perl 7 development is ongoing.

Type system: Dynamic

Package Managers

cpancpanm

Frameworks

MojoliciousCatalystDancer