Perl

Perl is a programming language where people use symbols to make things happen. Because many people can't read symbols as well as they can read words, programs written in Perl can sometimes be hard to read.

A lot of web pages are written using Perl, but it can be used to do all kinds of things on computers. It is very good at searching through text looking for patterns.

Perl was invented by Larry Wall, and he is working on a new version of it.

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