Perl
The text-processing workhorse of Unix and the early web, famous for regular expressions and CPAN. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- programming language
- Developer
- Perl 5 Porters
- Created by
- Larry Wall
- First release
- 1987
- License
- Artistic License or GPL-1.0-or-later
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://www.perl.org
- Paradigms
- Procedural, Object-oriented, Functional
- Typing
- Dynamic
- Type strength
- Weak
- Type inference
- No
- Memory management
- Reference counted
- Runs as
- Interpreted
- Main implementation
- perl
- Concurrency
- Processes, ithreads
- Null safety
- No
- Package manager
- CPAN
- Used for
- Scripting, Back end
- Specification
- None, perl is the reference