Perl
Perl was for decades the king of scripting and text processing with regular expressions. Flexible to the extreme ("there's more than one way to do it"). Now niche, but still alive in sysadmin and bioinformatics.
- Creado por Larry Wall
- Año 1987
- Paradigma: Multi-paradigm · interpreted
- Extensiones: .pl, .pm, .t, .pod
Para qué se usa
- Text processing
- System administration
- Bioinformatics
A favor
- Unbeatable regex
- Very flexible
- Powerful for text
En contra
- Hard to read code
- In decline
- Cryptic syntax
Ecosistema
- CPAN
- Mojolicious
- Catalyst
- Dancer
- DBI
Ejemplo
print "¡Hola, mundo!\n";