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general
history
Hello World
structure
further reading: websites on Perl
further reading: books on Perl

general

nature: scripting language

history: Perl (Practical Extracting and Report Language) was created by Larry Wall in 1987. Intended to replace the Unix shell, Sed, and Awk. Used in CGI scripts.

availability: Perl is available for the following systems: OpenVMS^e85

Hello World example

print "Hello World\n";

structure

format: free form

further reading: books:

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Advanced Perl Programming (Nutshell Handbook); by Sriram Srinivasan; O’Reilly & Associates; August 1997; ISBN 1565922204; paperback; 400 pages; $27.96

Web Client Programming With Perl; by Clinton Wong, Linda Mui; O’Reilly & Associates; April 1997; ISBN 156592214X; paperback; 250 pages; $23.96

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