Perl

American

[purl] / pɜrl /

Digital Technology, Trademark.

a high-level scripting language, originally created to help automate text processing, now used more broadly.

Perl British

/ pɜːl /

noun

a computer language that is used for text manipulation, esp on the Internet

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Etymology

Origin of Perl

Coined in 1987 by Perl's creator, Larry Wall, U.S. computer programmer (born 1954)

Example Sentences

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PERL, which has 200 employees and expects to make about $1.6 billion in home loans this year, sells about 60 percent of its loans to JPMorgan, according to founder and president Ken Perlmutter.

From Reuters • Oct. 7, 2015

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