History of Perl

General

• In computer programming, Perl is a high level dynamic interpreted programming language.
• Perl was developed by Larry Wall in 1987.
• Perl is a Unix Scripting Language which is used to make report processing easier.
• Perl is acronym of “Practical Extraction and Report Language”.
• Perl borrows some features from C, AWK, LISP and SED.
  

Slogans of PERL

• “There’s more than one way to do it”
• “Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible”

Symbol of PERL

• Onion

Camel

Applications of PERL

PERL is widely used in following areas

• System Administration
• Web Development
• Network Programming
• GUI Development

PERL in Real World

PERL is used in the following highly traffic websites like

• bbc.co.uk
• amazom.com
• livejournal
• ticketmaster
• Slashdot
• imdb

Finally i will say hacker's favourite language is Perl.