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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Look up Perl or perl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Perl is an open-source computer programming language. Perl may also refer to: Perl 6, the previous...
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Regular expression (redirect from Perl regex)
1980s, one being the POSIX standard and another, widely used, being the Perl syntax. Regular expressions are used in search engines, in search and replace...
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"Black Perl" is a code poem written using the Perl programming language. It was posted anonymously to Usenet on April 1, 1990, and is popular among Perl programmers[citation...
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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...
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Gisella Perl (10 December 1907 – 16 December 1988) was a Hungarian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped...
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Raku (programming language) (redirect from Niecza Perl 6)
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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Intermediate Perl is a book about the Perl programming language by Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy and Tom Phoenix, published in 2006 by O'Reilly Media...
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mod_perl is an optional module for the Apache HTTP server. It embeds a Perl interpreter into the Apache server. In addition to allowing Apache modules...
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In computing, the Perl DBI (Perl Database Interface) offers a standardized way for programmers using the Perl programming language to embed database communication...
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Advanced Perl Programming is a technical book on the Perl programming language, authored by Sriram Srinivasan and first published in 1997 by O'Reilly Media...
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XS is a Perl foreign function interface through which a program can call a C or C++ subroutine. XS or xsub is an abbreviation of "eXtendable Subroutine"...
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Edward Roy Perl (October 6, 1926 – July 15, 2014) was an American neuroscientist whose research focused on neural mechanisms of and circuitry involved...
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Programming Perl, best known as the Camel Book among programmers, is a book about writing programs using the Perl programming language, revised as several...
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Martin Lewis Perl (June 24, 1927 – September 30, 2014) was an American chemical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his...
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Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) is a library written in C, which implements a regular expression engine, inspired by the capabilities of the...
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The Perl virtual machine is a stack-based process virtual machine implemented as an opcodes interpreter which runs previously compiled programs written...
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Learning Perl, also known as the llama book, is a tutorial book for the Perl programming language, and is published by O'Reilly Media. The first edition...
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PerlMonks is a community website covering all aspects of Perl programming and other related topics such as web applications and system administration...
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The Obfuscated Perl Contest was a competition for programmers of Perl which was held annually between 1996 and 2000. Entrants to the competition aimed...
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William Perl (1920–1970), whose original name was William Mutterperl, was an American physicist and Soviet spy. While a student at the City College of...
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Perling (Jawi: ڤرليڠ; Chinese: 柏伶; Tamil: பெர்லிங்; officially called Taman Perling) is a neighbourhood and an upcoming state constituency in Pulai, Iskandar...
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Pearl Harbor (redirect from Perl Harbour)
Pearl Harbor is an American lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. It was often visited by the naval fleet of the United States...
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Perl (April 14, 1914 – December 11, 1971) was an American playwright, screenwriter, television producer and television writer of Jewish origin. Perl briefly...
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Perl Design Patterns Book is an online textbook about Perl style and design and analysis. The contents are licensed under GNU Free Documentation License...
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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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Hille Perl (born Hildegard Perl born 1965 in Bremen) is a German virtuoso performer of the viola da gamba and lirone. Her father Helmut Perl was an organist...
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Perls is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Perls (born 1976), American musician, entrepreneur and record producer Frank Perls...
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Salomon Perls (July 8, 1893 – March 14, 1970), better known as Fritz Perls, was a German-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. Perls coined...
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ActivePerl is a distribution of Perl from ActiveState (formerly part of Sophos) for Windows, macOS, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. A few main editions...
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