Perl

[purl]

Digital Technology, Trademark.

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

Origin of Perl

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

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Examples from the Web for perl

Then he created an Internet version of his HyperText program, writing it in just a few hundred lines of Perl code.
You Can Look It Up: The Wikipedia Story|Walter Isaacson|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Perl and Dalia themselves are wearing beautiful sheitels of long streaming curls.
The Sisterhood of Bulletproof Stockings: It’s Ladies’ Night for Hasidic Rockers|Emily Shire|September 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With Perl in particular, a former makeup artist, there is a sultriness to her metallic eye shadow and her painted lips.
The Sisterhood of Bulletproof Stockings: It’s Ladies’ Night for Hasidic Rockers|Emily Shire|September 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Perl asks her bandmate Dalia as she looks it up on her iPhone.
The Sisterhood of Bulletproof Stockings: It’s Ladies’ Night for Hasidic Rockers|Emily Shire|September 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST

At that same time, Perl, now 27, was going through her second divorce.
The Sisterhood of Bulletproof Stockings: It’s Ladies’ Night for Hasidic Rockers|Emily Shire|September 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Oh, then, perhaps you can tell us the way to Perl, or Pirl Street?
The wanderings and fortunes of some German emigrants|Friedrich Gerstcker
Perl gives a most interesting account of the domestic life of the family in the last days of the master's life.
Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas|W. J. Henderson
The fortifications of the town at the main arm of the Perl estuary could not have been more primitive.
The Accumulation of Capital|Rosa Luxemburg

British Dictionary definitions for perl

Perl

noun

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

Word Origin for Perl

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

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