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Scripting Languages Vs Programming Languages: PERL-Practical Extraction and Reporting Language

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic scripting language developed by Larry Wall in 1987 originally to make report processing easier. It is free and open source software that is highly portable, supporting over 76 operating systems. Perl inherits features from UNIX utilities and languages like C and C++. It supports object-oriented programming, databases, and has a large library of third-party modules available through CPAN.

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Scripting Languages Vs Programming Languages: PERL-Practical Extraction and Reporting Language

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic scripting language developed by Larry Wall in 1987 originally to make report processing easier. It is free and open source software that is highly portable, supporting over 76 operating systems. Perl inherits features from UNIX utilities and languages like C and C++. It supports object-oriented programming, databases, and has a large library of third-party modules available through CPAN.

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Scripting Languages Vs Programming Languages Scripting Language Programming Language 1) It is an Interpreter based Language 1) It is a compiler based Language.

2) Interpreter converts high level 2) Compiler converts the whole program in single instructions into machine language line short into machine language. by line 3) It doesnt create executable file. 3) It Creates .exe file. 4) No need to compile the program Need to compile the program 5) It takes less code 4) It takes numerous lines of code 6) It greatly reduces development time 5) It increases development time 7) It reduces maintenance of cost 7) It Increases maintenance of cost PERL-Practical Extraction and Reporting Language

Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall, a linguist working as a systems administrator for NASA, in 1987, as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic Scripting language. The home of perl is UNIX Perl Inherited features from UNIX utilities (awk, sed, grep, Smalltalk, Lisp, C, C++, Pascal and UNIX shell. Perl written in C language. Perl is free software. Perl is open source code.

o Perl is highly portable Language (supports 76+ Operating systems, Scripts developed in oneoperating system allows to run on other operating system with/without modifications.) o o Perl supports oops concepts known as object oriented perl. Perl supports database connectivity.

o Perl has given CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) modules.website is www.cpan.org o Perl was originally developed for to do manipulations in the text files later it is used in wide range of the following areas System Administration

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