Who is the first person to use the programming language PERL?

Perl, also Practical Extraction and Report Language is a dynamic procedural programming language designed by Larry Wall and first released in 1987.





Perl borrows features from C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, sed, Lisp, and, to a lesser extent, many other programming languages.





Larry Wall began work on Perl in 1987, and released version 1.0 to the comp.sources.misc newsgroup on December 18, 1987.





The language expanded rapidly over the next few years. Perl 2, released in 1988, featured a better regular expression engine. Perl 3, released in 1989, added support for binary data.

Who is the first person to use the programming language PERL?
PERL is designed by Larry Wall and first released in 1987.


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Reply:Perl stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language. Invented by Larry Hall, a Unix programmer who had got bored of the text handling limitations of the programming languages available at the time. Perhaps, the best thing about Perl is that you do not have to worry about low-level programming tasks like data types or memory allocation. It also gives strong support to regular expressions vital for any serious text processing task. Although certainly powerful and easy-to-learn, Perl can be cryptic at times.