Re: What is PERL?

Posted in 1995

Bobby Sukumar — 2 Feb 1995 09:53:04 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

------- Begin Included Message ---------- I read many articles about PERL. I am sorry, who can explain me what is PERL? --- Regards, Vadim. ======================================================================== Vadim Ketchashin,|Internet --> vadim@mcs.spb.su |St. Petersburg, Russia,| | DBMS Programmer |Voice --> +7 (812) 5683955 |Marine Computer Systems| -------- End Included Message ----------- Hi, PERL stands for "Practical Extraction Report Language", but according to its creator Larry Wall, people who love it refer to it as "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister". If you want more info on PERL, see the newsgroup comp.lang.perl. -- Bobby Sukumar, Informix SDC.