Perl
Programming Language
perl
text processing
scripting
system administration
historical
cpan
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created in 1987. Known for its text processing capabilities and 'There's more than one way to do it' philosophy, it was widely used for system administration, web development, and scripting before being largely superseded by Python and Ruby.
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Python
Python is a high-level, interpreted programming language known for its simplicity and readability. Perfect for beginners and widely used in web development, data science, AI, and automation.
Ruby
Ruby is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language known for its elegant syntax. Popular for web development with the Ruby on Rails framework.