Perl

Description

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. In addition to CGI, Perl is used for graphics programming, system administration, network programming, finance, bioinformatics, and other applications.

Foreign libraries with Perl bindings

• LZ4 - Compression library - Open source - Current
• Snappy - Compression lib. - Open Source - Current.

Text & programmers editors with Perl support

• Boxer - Perl syntax highlighting support built in - Commercial - DOS and OS/2 versions discontinued, Win32 version still sold.

Version

• Latest Version: Perl version 5.14.2 (20120105) [1]

Links

• [2]

License

• Perl is Open Source software, licensed under its Artistic License, or the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Author

• Port by Paul Smedley