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Programming language developed by Larry Wall. Perl is quite adept as a ‘glue’ language, taking the output of one program, manipulating it, and feeding it to another. Has extremely good support for regular expressions, to the point where it has developed its own regex flavor known as “Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions” (pcre).
I was introduced to Perl via an old sysadmin of mine, who told me that “If you can’t do it with Perl, you don’t need to do it.”
