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Perl

[ purl ]

Digital Technology, Trademark.
  1. a high-level scripting language, originally created to help automate text processing, now used more broadly.


Perl

/ pɜːl /

noun

  1. a computer language that is used for text manipulation, esp on the Internet
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Perl1

Coined in 1987 by Perl's creator, Larry Wall, U.S. computer programmer (born 1954)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Perl1

C20: from p ( ractical ) e ( xtraction and ) r ( eport ) l ( anguage )
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Example Sentences

And, difficult though it is, people who believe they may be sick must try to self-isolate, even if they’re not able to get a test right away, Perl says.

From Time

Then he created an Internet version of his HyperText program, writing it in just a few hundred lines of Perl code.

Perl and Dalia themselves are wearing beautiful sheitels of long streaming curls.

With Perl in particular, a former makeup artist, there is a sultriness to her metallic eye shadow and her painted lips.

Perl asks her bandmate Dalia as she looks it up on her iPhone.

At that same time, Perl, now 27, was going through her second divorce.

The fortifications of the town at the main arm of the Perl estuary could not have been more primitive.

Mr Myers, using Du Perl's conception of a threshold, has termed the former our subliminal self.

Oh, then, perhaps you can tell us the way to Perl, or Pirl Street?

Perl gives a most interesting account of the domestic life of the family in the last days of the master's life.

Frau Perl said when they build on a roof it brings good fortune always.

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