Perl

perl English Etymology A respelling of its original name en Pearl, a reference to Matthew 13:46.Matthew 13 46 Who when hee had found one pearle of great price, he went and solde all that he had, and bought it.en Scripting on the Lido Deck 2000 October Wired https://www.wired.com/2000/10/cruise/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160307004219/https://www.wired.com/2000/10/cruise/ 2016-03-07 Steve Silberman Steve Silberman 1059-1028 A common backronym backronymic explanation is “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language”. Proper noun en programming language A family of high-level programming languages, particularly used for text processing. en Eric Herrmann Mastering Perl 5 1999 Sybex 5 https://books.google.com/books?id=t1M_AQAAIAAJ&q=%22Perl%22+sysadmin&dq=%22Perl%22+sysadmin&hl=&cd=4&source=gbs_api 978-0-7821-2200-8 Perl attracted the attention of Unix system administrators, who needed a language that was easier to use than the C programming language and more powerful than scripting languages such as Borne and C-shell. Derived terms en Perlish See also en Raku References Further reading Anagrams en elpr LPer RELP REPL lerp repl. German de:+ (Schriftmaß) Etymology From de fr perle pearl, used by Jean Jannon for the type used in his miniature editions of Horace, Vergil, and the New Testament in the 1620s. Pronunciation de /pɛʁl/ de De-Perl.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de De-Perl2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun f.sg de uncountable printing dated pearl: the small size of type standardized as 5 points. Declension f.sg Derived terms de Perlbibel Hunsrik Pronunciation hrx /pʰɛl/ Noun f Perle pearl Further reading