| LC control no. | sh 95010633 |
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| Topical heading | Perl (Computer program language) |
| Variant(s) | Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister (Computer program language) Practical Extraction and Report Language (Computer program language) |
| See also | Scripting languages (Computer science) |
| Found in | Work cat.: 95-43058: Deep, J. Developing CGI applications with Perl, 1996. Schwartz, R.L. Learning Perl, 1994: p. 1 (Perl is short for Practical Extraction and Report Language; it's also been called a Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister; both are endorsed by Larry Wall, Perl's creator and chief architect) Webopedia, Oct. 3, 2006 (JavaScript, ASP, JSP, PHP, Perl, Tcl and Python are examples of scripting languages.) |
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