Perl Programming Language

1. Robert Asbell 1. Who invented Perl 2. What is it? 3. What is it for? Perl Programming Language

2. Who invented Perl? • Perl was invented by Larry Wall

3. Who invented Perl? • Perl was invented by Larry Wall • Larry was was originally a linguist

4. Who invented Perl? • Perl was invented by Larry Wall • Larry was was originally a linguist • Linguistics can be particularly helpful in designing and implementing a new programming language

5. Who invented Perl?

6. What exactly is Perl?

7. What exactly is Perl? • Perl is a language invented in 1987 for processing large amount of text.

8. What exactly is Perl? • Perl is a language invented in 1987 for processing large amount of text. • Perl is an stands for “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language”

9. What exactly is Perl? • Perl is a language invented in 1987 for processing large amount of text. • Perl is an stands for “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language”. • Perl is also a community of programmers dedicated to expanding the language as well as the community of users.

10. What is Perl good for?

11. What is Perl good for? • Since Perl was originally for text-processing, it is heavily used as a “Glue-Language”.

12. What is Perl good for? • Since Perl was originally for text-processing, it is heavily used as a “Glue-Language”. • Since Perl is ubiquitous in much of the code that built the internet, some people think the next stock market crash could be due to a bug in some Perl code.

13. What is Perl good for? • Since Perl was originally for text-processing, it is heavily used as a “Glue-Language”. • Since Perl is ubiquitous in much of the code that built the internet, some people think the next stock market crash could be due to a bug in some Perl code. • Perl has evolved to encompass many other tasks from object-oriented programming, AI, and mathematics.

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