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| Name | Perl | | Paradigm | multi-paradigm: functional, imperative, object-oriented (class-based) | | Appeared in | 1987 | | Designed by | Larry Wall | | Software developer | Larry Wall | | Stable release | 5.12.1 (May 16, 2010) | | Preview release | 5.13.2 (June 22, 2010) | | Typing discipline | Dynamic | | Influenced by | AWK, Smalltalk 80, Lisp, C, C++, sed, Unix shell, Pascal | | Influenced | Python, PHP, Ruby, ECMAScript, LPC, Windows PowerShell, JavaScript, Falcon | | Programming language | C | | Operating system | Cross-platform | | License | GNU General Public License, Artistic License | | Usual file extensions | .pl |
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Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular amongst programmers. Larry Wall continues to oversee development of the core language, and its upcoming version, Perl 6.
Perl borrows features from other programming languages including C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, and sed. The language provides powerful text processing facilities without the arbitrary data length limits of many contemporary Unix tools, facilitating easy manipulation of text files. It is also used for graphics programming, system administration, network programming, applications that require database access and CGI programming on the Web. Perl is nicknamed "the Swiss Army chainsaw of programming languages" due to its flexibility and adaptability.
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