Perl

American  

[purl] / pɜrl /

Digital Technology, Trademark.

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

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Perl British  

/ pɜːl /

noun

1. a computer language that is used for text manipulation, esp on the Internet

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Etymology

Origin of Perl

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

Example Sentences

Four years ago, Isobel Perl was living with friends in London and thriving.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2024

“When Schubert mentions Balanchine and Stravinsky’s youth in Russia, Parker offers a delicious vista of onion-domed churches silhouetted against a darkening sunset,” Jed Perl wrote in his review in The Times.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

In New York City, meanwhile, soil expert Sara Perl Egendorf saw that residents weren't sure how best to protect against soil lead contamination in urban gardens.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2023

But architecture critic Jed Perl described the light in the galleries as “beatific, serene.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2022

But old attitudes and distorted stubborn impressions of my father outlived Arnold Perl and James Baldwin.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey