Perl

Perl is the most popular web programming language. Over a million people program with Perl. That is approximately one Perl programmer for every resident of Hyderabad, Pakistan or Donetsk, Ukraine.

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Perl is the most popular language for creating CGI programs. Perl is the acronym for Practical Extraction and Report Language. Every computer platform supports this language and hence widely used.

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Perl is the ultimate language for text manipulation, and it has powerful tools for manipulation of lists and other data structures.

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And what defines a 'python activist' anyway? Blowing up Perl installations worldwide?

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Some said the world should be in Perl, A close-paren.

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As it seems to me, in Perl you have to be an expert to correctly make a nested data structure like, say, a list of hashes of instances. In Python, you have to be an idiot not to be able to do it, because you just write it down.

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Those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl.

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There's no obfuscated Perl contest because it's pointless.

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Haskell is faster than C++, more concise than Perl, more regular than Python, more flexible than Ruby, more typeful than C#, more robust than Java, and has absolutely nothing in common with PHP.

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If you can't do , you can't do biology, and Perl is the biologist's favorite language for doing bioinformatics.

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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

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A Perl script is "correct" if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. (On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.)

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[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.

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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

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Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

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