The structure of the Perl programming language encompasses both the syntactical rules of the language and the general ways in which programs are organized...
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Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms...
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Perl Data Language (abbreviated PDL) is a set of free software array programming extensions to the Perl programming language. PDL extends the data structures...
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Raku is a member of the Perl family of programming languages. Formerly named Perl 6, it was renamed in October 2019. Raku introduces elements of many...
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Parsers are often written in functional languages, such as Haskell, or in scripting languages, such as Python or Perl, or in C or C++. As an example, (add...
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A Perl module is a discrete component of software for the Perl programming language. Technically, it is a particular set of conventions for using Perl's...
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guide to the Perl programming language: Perl – high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, multi-paradigm, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally...
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CPAN (redirect from Comprehensive Perl Archive Network)
model and began as a place to unify the structure of scattered Perl archives. Like many programming languages, Perl has mechanisms to use external libraries...
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LAMP (software bundle) (category Perl)
MySQL for the relational database management system Perl, PHP, or Python for the programming language The components of the LAMP stack are present in the...
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functions in the Perl language structure article. In both the C and C++ preprocessors, as well as in other syntactically C-like languages, # is used to start...
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Objective-C Perl Swift Visual Basic Xojo List-based languages are a type of data-structured language that are based on the list data structure. Lisp Arc...
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Autovivification (category Perl)
In the Perl programming language, autovivification is the automatic creation of new arrays and hashes as required every time an undefined value is dereferenced...
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For example, a language agnostic Java development team might choose to use Ruby or Perl for some development work, where Ruby or Perl would be more appropriate...
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LPC, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Swift, Verilog and SystemVerilog (hardware description languages). These languages have drawn many of...
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SNOBOL (redirect from SNOBOL programming language)
as a text manipulation language in the humanities. In the 1980s and 1990s, its use faded as newer languages such as AWK and Perl made string manipulation...
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program is running, unlike in static languages, where the structure and types are fixed during compilation. Dynamic languages provide flexibility. This allows...
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reStructuredText (RST, ReST, or reST) is a file format for textual data used primarily in the Python programming language community for technical documentation...
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context-free grammars. Some languages, including Perl and Lisp, contain constructs that allow execution during the parsing phase. Languages that have constructs...
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barrier for beginners. Most free-form languages descend from ALGOL, including C, Pascal, and Perl. Lisp languages are free-form, although they do not descend...
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other major programming languages, Lisp allows implementing control structures using the language. Several control structures are implemented as Lisp...
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PL/Perl (Procedural Language/Perl) is a procedural language supported by the PostgreSQL RDBMS. PL/Perl, as an imperative programming language, allows more...
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BioPerl is a collection of Perl modules that facilitate the development of Perl scripts for bioinformatics applications. It has played an integral role...
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Toolkit, an Open Source Perl module for TL1 Telcordia GR-831-CORE - OTGR Section 12.1: Operations Application Messages - Language for Operations Application...
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Regular expression (redirect from Perl regex)
features of Perl 5.x regexes, but also allow BNF-style definition of a recursive descent parser via sub-rules. The use of regexes in structured information...
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many notable programming languages. Programming language expressions can be broadly classified into four syntax structures: prefix notation Lisp (* (+...
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Medical Language System (UMLS) is a compendium of many controlled vocabularies in the biomedical sciences (created 1986). It provides a mapping structure among...
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Control flow (redirect from Control structure)
structures have a final keyword. No final keyword: ALGOL 60, C, C++, Go, Haskell, Java, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PL/I, Python, PowerShell. Such languages need...
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primarily for a specific domain. For example, Perl was originally developed as a text-processing and glue language, for the same domain as AWK and shell scripts...
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marks have equivalent functionality (unlike in Unix shells, Perl, and Perl-influenced languages). Both marks use the backslash (\) as an escape character...
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C#) DCL Windows PowerShell (also under C#, ksh, and Perl) ed (programming language) sed AWK Perl (also under C) Eiffel Cobra (design by contract) Sather...
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