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Practical Extraction and Report Language
• Pathetically Eclectic Rubbish Lister

• Swiss Army Chainsaw

• duct tape of the Internet

What is Perl?

• (semi) interpreted language

• optimized for scanning text, and extracting information

• practical, rather than beautiful

• combines the strong sides of C, sed, awk, sh and a few more

• syntax similar to C

• unlimited data size, unlimited recursion

• sophisticated pattern matching

• optimized for text, but binary data are no problem

• safe

• buzzword compliant, and adds a few of its own

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