Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A trademark for a widely used programming language that has powerful text-processing features.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A simplified spelling of
pearl .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A text-oriented
programming language , widely used inInternet applications .
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The title says it all .. they are planning a big change in PERL syntax for the next release - "Although Perl 5's expressions are the most sophisticated available and aspired to by other programming languages, "no one pretends for a moment that they're anything but hideously ugly," said Damian Conway" : righ on
Public Rambling Pedro Beltrao 2004
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The title says it all .. they are planning a big change in PERL syntax for the next release - "Although Perl 5's expressions are the most sophisticated available and aspired to by other programming languages, "no one pretends for a moment that they're anything but hideously ugly," said Damian Conway" : righ on
Archive 2004-02-01 Pedro Beltrao 2004
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I wrote my first five perl scripts today, while making my way through the Learning Perl book on the plane.
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I've created a perl script that is using the Expect. pm module which lets me work with Expect in Perl.
LinuxQuestions.org 2009
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You can find out where Perl is stored in your system by typing: which perl
Yweather Puts The Weather On Your OS X Desktop | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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And the answer of the commission, signed by the Vice-president of the Commission, Msgr. Camille Perl, is very clear.
PCED declares validity of MP "Summorum Pontificum" for the Ambrosian Rite 2009
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In addition, its anticipated director, Msgr Perl is certainly the man in Rome who best knows the traditionalist world, its ways, its outlines or its detours.
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• Develop and maintain Perl modules to be run under Apache2/mod_perl2
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• Develop and maintain Perl modules to be run under Apache2/mod_perl2
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• Develop and maintain Perl scripts for system maintenance and data processing
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