Perl 5

Perl 5 is a powerful, general-purpose, high-level interpreted programming language originally designed for text manipulation but now applied across system administration, web development, network programming, bioinformatics, and more, with a long history dating back to 1987.

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Expressive scripting with strong capabilities in regex, text parsing, and report generation
Multi-paradigm: procedural, functional, and object-oriented programming support
Vast ecosystem via CPAN with hundreds of thousands of modules
Cross-platform interpreters available for virtually every OS (Linux, macOS, Windows, etc.)
Dual licensing under Artistic License or GPL for broad usage
Extensive use in CGI, LAMP stacks, system automation, web frameworks, and more

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MIT License

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Linux, Mac, Windows

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Perl

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2025-09-09

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