English Explanatory Dictionary

Perl

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A family of high-level programming languages, particularly used for text processing.

Word forms

Perl

Etymology

A respelling of its original name Pearl, a reference to Matthew 13:46. A common backronymic explanation is “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language”.

Related words

Raku

Derived words

Perlish
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