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Today in 1987 the Perl programming language was released. It was designed for administrators, with a focus on manipulating text.
Its power and a shallow learning curve allowed for quick, satisfying hacks and contributed to its once immense popularity, especially for operating Internet services.
It held hundreds of thousands of websites together.
Problems included a lack of focus on code maintainability.
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