Monday, June 27, 2016

What is Perl?

World is full of problems & just like anybody else my life is also full of problems. I always feel that there is a common process to solve a lot of these problems. The process is to start with 1 problem at a time, sit back, relax & think.
When you start thinking, think about the outcome that you want first & then think about the steps that you will take to reach the outcome you want. Once you have the steps in mind, you will have a solution. In technical terms this is called an algorithm.

Ok, coming back to the point.

One day while sitting on a hammock in my lawn watering my grass I was pondering upon the challenges that I'm currently facing in life with no solution in sight. That got me thinking, that there is something that I'm missing in life, there is something that I haven't learned yet. But what is that something? What is that something that is around for a long time that I should learn to be able to look for solutions to my problems. That is when I realized that there is 1 language that is around for as long as I'm & we have never been introduced to each other & that language is PERL.

Ok, seriously now. Coming back to the point.

What is perl?

Perl is a programming language which can be used for a variety of tasks, such as extracting information form a text file & printing out a report etc. However it is especially used for developing web applications.
Programs written in perl are called perl scripts. It is an interpreted language, hence the execution of a perl script uses more CPU time than a corresponding C program.

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