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From Rosetta Code

Perl is a programming language. It may be used to instruct computers to accomplish a variety of tasks which may or may not be domain-specific.

Execution method:	Compiled (bytecode)
Garbage collected:	No
Parameter passing methods:	By reference, By value
Type strength:	Weak
Type expression:	Implicit
Type checking:	Dynamic, Static
Lang tag(s):	perl
See Also:	Perl on the HOPL BNF Grammar for Perl Perl compared to other languages

Listed below are all of the tasks on Rosetta Code which have been solved using Perl.

As a language, it takes the best from other programming languages such as BASIC, Lisp, C and the Unix tools sed, AWK and the UNIX shell. It is particularly suited for Unix systems programming, text processing and gluing heterogeneous programs together. Its interpreter is called perl. Perl has seen five major revisions, and a sixth is currently being worked on.

The implementation known as Perl is available on a wide variety of mostly UNIX-based operating systems.

[edit] Citations

• Wikipedia:Perl