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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
Yukihiro Matsumoto

Meaning of "Perl" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PERL

From p( ractical) e( xtraction and) r( eport) l( anguage).
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PRONUNCIATION OF PERL

Perl  [pɜːl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Perl is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PERL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Perl

Perl is a family of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. The languages in this family include Perl 5 and Perl 6. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, such as: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions. The latest major stable revision of Perl 5 is 5.20, released in May 2014. Perl 6, which began as a redesign of Perl 5 in 2000, eventually evolved into a separate language. Both languages continue to be developed independently by different development teams and liberally borrow ideas from one another. The Perl languages borrow features from other programming languages including C, shell scripting, AWK, and sed. They provide powerful text processing facilities without the arbitrary data-length limits of many contemporary Unix commandline tools, facilitating easy manipulation of text files. Perl 5 gained widespread popularity in the late 1990s as a CGI scripting language, in part due to its parsing abilities.

Definition of Perl in the English dictionary

The definition of Perl in the dictionary is a computer language that is used for text manipulation, esp on the Internet.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERL


batgirl
ˈbætˌɡɜːl
burl
bɜːl
cowgirl
ˈkaʊɡɜːl
curl
kɜːl
earl
ɜːl
furl
fɜːl
girl
ɡɜːl
gurl
ɡɜːl
homegirl
ˈhəʊmˌɡɜːl
hurl
hɜːl
merle
mɜːl
pearl
pɜːl
playgirl
ˈpleɪˌɡɜːl
purl
pɜːl
schoolgirl
ˈskuːlˌɡɜːl
Searle
sɜːl
showgirl
ˈʃəʊˌɡɜːl
swirl
swɜːl
twirl
twɜːl
whirl
wɜːl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERL

Perkin´s mauve
perkiness
perkish
perky
perlemoen
Perlis
perlite
perlitic
Perlman

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERL

baby girl
birthday girl
call girl
carl
cover girl
day girl
dirl
flower girl
funny girl
herl
Husserl
It girl
marl
merl
mother-of-pearl
murl
old girl
salesgirl
seed pearl
weather girl

Synonyms and antonyms of Perl in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Perl» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PERL

Find out the translation of Perl to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Perl from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Perl» in English.

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Perl的
1,325 millions of speakers

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Perl
570 millions of speakers

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Perl
510 millions of speakers

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पर्ल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بيرل
280 millions of speakers

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Perl
278 millions of speakers

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Perl
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পার্ল
260 millions of speakers

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Perl
220 millions of speakers

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Perl
190 millions of speakers

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Perl
180 millions of speakers

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パール
130 millions of speakers

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85 millions of speakers

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Perl
85 millions of speakers
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Perl
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பேர்ல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पर्ल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Perl
70 millions of speakers

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Perl
65 millions of speakers

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Perl
50 millions of speakers

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Perl
40 millions of speakers

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Perl
30 millions of speakers
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Perl
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Perl
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

perl
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Perl
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Perl

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERL»

The term «Perl» is very widely used and occupies the 11.379 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PERL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Perl

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4 QUOTES WITH «PERL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Perl.
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Yukihiro Matsumoto
Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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Larry Wall
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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Larry Wall
There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.
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Larry Wall
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERL»

Discover the use of Perl in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Perl and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Learning Perl
If you're just getting started with Perl, this is the book you want—whether you're a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker.
Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, Tom Phoenix, 2011
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Perl Best Practices
I recommend this book to anyone who prefers getting on with the job rather than going back and fixing errors caused by syntax and poor style issues."-- Jacinta Richardson"If you care about programming in any language read this book.
Damian Conway, 2005
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Beginning Perl
This book aims to give existing Perl programmers more detailed knowledge of some of the more advanced elements of the language.
Simon Cozens, P. F. Wainwright, 2000
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Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs
For several years Mark Jason Dominus has worked to apply functional programming techniques to Perl.
Mark Jason Dominus, 2005
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Beginning Perl
Beginning Perl: Explains how to work with data using Perl's built-in functions Shows how to handle Unicode in Perl Details the basics of control flow and handling references, files, and directories Devotes a full chapter to Object-Oriented ...
Curtis Poe, 2012
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Programming Perl: 3rd Edition
Introduces the programming language to beginners and provides a Perl language reference for experienced users, covering operators, statements, formats, modules, objects, threads, tied variables, debugging, and security.
Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, 2004
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Perl Black Book (2Nd Ed.) (With Cd)
From Perl essentials to working with XML and WML, from creating guest books to writing bi-directional Internet socket programs to implementing shopping cart programs, this book covers as much Perl as any two books, and includes hundreds of ...
Steven Holzner, 2004
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Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics
Some of the later chapters focus in greater detail on specific bioinformatics topics. This book is suitable for use as a classroom textbook, for self-study, and as a reference.
James Tisdall, 2001
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Network Programming with Perl
""This is a superb book. Another splendid book from Lincoln, whose mastery and lucid exposition make this a must-have for the serious Perl programmer.
Lincoln D. Stein, 2001
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Intermediate Perl
This book picks up right where Learning Perl leaves off. With Intermediate Perl, you’ll graduate from short scripts to much larger programs, using features that make Perl a general-purpose language.
Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, Tom Phoenix, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Perl is used in the context of the following news items.
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Union Berlin vs. Fortuna Düsseldorf: Promotion a real aim for both …
Taking control of Sunday's clash will be 45-year-old veteran referee Günter Perl. The man in the middle has vast amounts of experience in ... «VAVEL.com, Jul 15»
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Chess notes
... each), 1st U2210: Joseph Han ($600); Boylston Tornado: Open: 1st: Lawyer Times: 3.5-.5, 2d: Joe Perl: 3-1, U1800: 1st: Boshen Li, 4-0. «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
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One way to stop flooding in Overbrook: demolish houses
... a Baltimore County councilman who represents the Towson area. (Staff photo by Larry Perl). By Larry Perl Towson Times contact the reporter. «Baltimore Sun, Jul 15»
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David Hochberg: ” Use credit cards… but pay them off right away”
David Hochberg of Perl Mortgage joins Steve Bertrand and Wendy Snyder to help listeners fix their credit and refinance their homes. «WGN Radio, Jul 15»
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IT Life: TruBe Or Not TruBe?
In 2005 I was heading up a team of Perl developers and designers. It's amazing how much technology has evolved since then. jQuery hadn't ... «TechWeekEurope UK, Jul 15»
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Open SSH bug opens brute force attack window
They wrote: “A simple way to exploit the bug is to execute this command: ssh -lusername -oKbdInteractiveDevices=`perl -e 'print “pam,” x ... «We Live Security, Jul 15»
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Local community things to know and do for the San Gabriel Valley …
Co-emcees will be Jeff Michael from KTTV-TV (Channel 11) and Sasha Perl Raver from FXM-TV (FX Movie). People can sample dishes from ... «The San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Jul 15»
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Honor Roll: Yorkville Elementary School
SEVENTH GRADE: Bretl, Thomas; Edstrom, Alec; Kiedrowski, Terry; Mayer, Carlee; Meldgaard, Hannah; Perl, Remington; Schuster, Nathanael ... «Journal Times, Jul 15»
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World's first animal terminal under construction
... the need for a more humane and efficient model for this significant segment of the air-travel industry,” Dr.Aaron Perl, managing director of The ... «Mother Nature Network, Jul 15»
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Israelis destroyed 3778 trees and 30 wells in occupied Hebron …
Davidi Perl [leader of Gush Etzion] calls it “a very important point” geographically, “They decided to try and renew and make life in the place ... «Mondoweiss, Jul 15»

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