Exploring Perl: The Practical Language for Text Processing and Beyond
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Robert Asbell 1. Who invented Perl 2. What is it? 3. What is it for? Perl Programming Language
Who invented Perl? • Perl was invented by Larry Wall
Who invented Perl? • Perl was invented by Larry Wall • Larry was was originally a linguist
Who invented Perl? • Perl was invented by Larry Wall • Larry was was originally a linguist • Linguistics can be particularly helpful in designing and implementing a new programming language
What exactly is Perl? • Perl is a language invented in 1987 for processing large amount of text.
What exactly is Perl? • Perl is a language invented in 1987 for processing large amount of text. • Perl is an stands for “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language”
What exactly is Perl? • Perl is a language invented in 1987 for processing large amount of text. • Perl is an stands for “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language”. • Perl is also a community of programmers dedicated to expanding the language as well as the community of users.
What is Perl good for? • Since Perl was originally for text-processing, it is heavily used as a “Glue-Language”.
What is Perl good for? • Since Perl was originally for text-processing, it is heavily used as a “Glue-Language”. • Since Perl is ubiquitous in much of the code that built the internet, some people think the next stock market crash could be due to a bug in some Perl code.
What is Perl good for? • Since Perl was originally for text-processing, it is heavily used as a “Glue-Language”. • Since Perl is ubiquitous in much of the code that built the internet, some people think the next stock market crash could be due to a bug in some Perl code. • Perl has evolved to encompass many other tasks from object-oriented programming, AI, and mathematics.
Thank You!!! • That is all.....
Thank You!!! • That is all..... • Any Questions?