| 释义 |
Perl, n. Computing.
Brit. |pəːl|, U.S. |pərl|
Forms: 19– PERL, 19– Perl, 19– perl
[Alteration of pearl n.1, with omission of -a- to differentiate it from an existing programming language called PEARL:
Coined by Larry Wall (b. 1954) in early 1987; the program was publicly released on 18 December of that year. Explanations of the name as an acronym (e.g. ‹ the initial letters of Practical Extraction and Report Language, ‹ the initial letters of Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister), although found early in the documentation for the language, are subsequent rationalizations.]
A high-level interpreted programming language widely used for a variety of tasks and especially for applications running on the World Wide Web.
The form Perl is preferred for the language itself; perl is used for the interpreter for the language.
1987New off the Wall Software Product from Larry Wall in misc.kids (Usenet newsgroup) 13 May Perl (Age 3mo). 1988J. Vromans Perl Reference Card 1/1, -n, causes perl to assume an input loop around your script... -U, allows perl to do unsafe operations. 1995Economist 1 July 95/2 The..servers that make up the most popular part of the Internet are often written in Perl, and virtually all Web-based information exchanges are handled with the language. 1996Sci. Amer. Jan. 21/1 PERL..makes it easy to write programs that respond to text messages with specific actions. 2002D. Verton Hacker Diaries viii. 170 Using a Perl script that hashes packets based on their sequence numbers. |