Perl (Computer program language)

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95010633
- info:lc/authorities/sh95010633
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh95010633#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
- LCSH Collection - Authorized Headings
- LCSH Collection - General Collection
Variants
- Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister (Computer program language)
- Practical Extraction and Report Language (Computer program language)
Broader Terms
- Scripting languages (Computer science)
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb124906490
Sources
- found: Work cat.: 95-43058: Deep, J. Developing CGI applications with Perl, 1996.
- found: Schwartz, R.L. Learning Perl, 1994: p. 1 (Perl is short for Practical Extraction and Report Language; it's also been called a Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister; both are endorsed by Larry Wall, Perl's creator and chief architect)
- found: Webopedia, Oct. 3, 2006 (JavaScript, ASP, JSP, PHP, Perl, Tcl and Python are examples of scripting languages.)
Change Notes
- 1995-12-15: new
- 2006-12-05: revised

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