Appendix D. Perl and the .NET Runtime
Jan Dubois
Appendix D credit: Jan Dubois, Senior Developer, ActiveState. Copyright © 2002, ActiveState. All rights reserved. ActiveState, Perl Dev Kit, PerlNET, and Visual Perl are trademarks of ActiveState SRL.
Perl is one of the most popular dynamically typed scripting languages. It was created by Larry Wall and publicly released for the first time in 1987. The current version, Perl 5, was released in 1994 and is still under active development, with Perl 5.8 being released in summer 2002.
Perl copied the best features from other languages such as C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC. It is especially powerful for text manipulation and rapid development, which made it an ideal language for Web development (it has ...
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