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Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a text-processing
language developed by Larry Wall which looks like a combination of C
and several Unix text processing utilities (awk, sed
and tr). Its detractors claim that Perl is actually an acronym
for Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.
It is often used as an implementation language for CGI scripts.
