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Perl

Term · Computing and IT · MLC-T-CMP-000906

A high-level, interpreted, general-purpose programming language created by Larry Wall in 1987. It is particularly known for its powerful text processing capabilities, drawing heavily on features from shell scripting, C, and regular expressions. Perl gained widespread popularity for web development, system administration, and network programming, and its features influenced many other languages.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CMP-000906
FieldComputing and IT
SubjectSoftware
Record as JSON 
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