Perl

[ purl ]

Digital Technology, Trademark.

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

Perl

/ pɜːl /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Perl¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Perl¹

C20: from p ( ractical ) e ( xtraction and ) r ( eport ) l ( anguage )

Example Sentences

And, difficult though it is, people who believe they may be sick must try to self-isolate, even if they’re not able to get a test right away, Perl says.

From Time

Then he created an Internet version of his HyperText program, writing it in just a few hundred lines of Perl code.

From The Daily Beast

Perl and Dalia themselves are wearing beautiful sheitels of long streaming curls.

From The Daily Beast

With Perl in particular, a former makeup artist, there is a sultriness to her metallic eye shadow and her painted lips.

From The Daily Beast

Perl asks her bandmate Dalia as she looks it up on her iPhone.

From The Daily Beast

At that same time, Perl, now 27, was going through her second divorce.

From The Daily Beast

The fortifications of the town at the main arm of the Perl estuary could not have been more primitive.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr Myers, using Du Perl's conception of a threshold, has termed the former our subliminal self.

From Project Gutenberg

Oh, then, perhaps you can tell us the way to Perl, or Pirl Street?

From Project Gutenberg

Perl gives a most interesting account of the domestic life of the family in the last days of the master's life.

From Project Gutenberg

Frau Perl said when they build on a roof it brings good fortune always.

From Project Gutenberg