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From: mitch@sgi.com (Thomas Mitchell)
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Subject: Re: has anyone gotten Perl3pl41 to work under Irix 3.3.1
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Date: 28 Dec 90 17:17:22 GMT
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In article <9012060740.AA08008@karron.med.nyu.edu> karron@cmcl2.nyu.edu writes:
>
>What is Perl3pl41 ? What does it do ?
>

Perl is a new 'language' by Larry Wall of 'patch' fame.

    perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language

It is freely available on the internet.  It is also
'way-cool'.  It is getting stable on hunderds of different
Unix platforms.  Infact the Nutshell book people just
published a book on perl.

Perl3pl41 is 'perl' release 3 patch level 41.


    DESCRIPTION
         Perl is a interpreted language optimized for scanning
         arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text
         files, and printing reports based on that information.  It's
         also a good language for many system management tasks.  The
         language is intended to be practical (easy to use,
         efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant,
         minimal).  It combines (in the author's opinion, anyway)
         some of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh, so people
         familiar with those languages should have little difficulty
         with it.  (Language historians will also note some vestiges
         of csh, Pascal, and even BASIC-PLUS.)











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