{"id":180,"date":"2020-09-27T07:35:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T07:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smedley.id.au\/os2ports_wp\/?page_id=180"},"modified":"2020-09-27T09:25:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T09:25:23","slug":"perl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/os2ports.smedley.id.au\/?page_id=180","title":{"rendered":"Perl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Perl Facts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language.<\/li><li>It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors.<\/li><li>Perl is&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensource.org\/\">Open Source<\/a>&nbsp;software,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/dev.perl.org\/licenses\/\">licensed<\/a>&nbsp;under its&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/dev.perl.org\/licenses\/artistic.html\">Artistic License<\/a>, or the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/dev.perl.org\/licenses\/gpl1.html\">GNU General Public License (GPL)<\/a>.<\/li><li>Perl was created by Larry Wall.<\/li><li>Perl 1.0 was released to usenet&#8217;s alt.comp.sources in 1987<\/li><li><em>PC Magazine<\/em>&nbsp;named Perl a finalist for its 1998 Technical Excellence Award in the Development Tool category.<\/li><li>Perl is listed in the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oed.com\/\">Oxford English Dictionary<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Perl Features<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Perl takes the best features from other languages, such as C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC, among others.<\/li><li>Perls database integration interface (<a href=\"http:\/\/dbi.perl.org\/\">DBI<\/a>) supports third-party databases including Oracle, Sybase,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.postgresql.org\/\">Postgres<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysql.com\/\">MySQL<\/a>&nbsp;and others.<\/li><li>Perl works with HTML, XML, and other mark-up languages.<\/li><li>Perl supports&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicode.org\/\">Unicode<\/a>.<\/li><li>Perl is&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.perl.org\/about\/y2k.html\">Y2K compliant<\/a>.<\/li><li>Perl supports both procedural and object-oriented programming.<\/li><li>Perl interfaces with external C\/C++ libraries through XS or&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swig.org\/\">SWIG<\/a>.<\/li><li>Perl is extensible. There are over 500 third party modules available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (<a href=\"http:\/\/cpan.perl.org\/\">CPAN<\/a>).<\/li><li>The Perl interpreter can be embedded into other systems.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/cohuwabu12x4jub\/perl-5.14.2-os2-20120105.zip?dl=0\">Perl 5.14.2 &#8211; updated 20120105<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; needs&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.netlabs.org\/pub\/gcc\/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip\">libc063.dl<\/a>l<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perl Facts Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language. It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors. Perl is&nbsp;Open Source&nbsp;software,&nbsp;licensed&nbsp;under its&nbsp;Artistic License, or the&nbsp;GNU General Public License (GPL). Perl was created by Larry Wall. Perl 1.0 was released to usenet&#8217;s alt.comp.sources in 1987 PC Magazine&nbsp;named Perl a finalist for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/os2ports.smedley.id.au\/?page_id=180\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Perl&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":70,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-180","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/os2ports.smedley.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/os2ports.smedley.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/os2ports.smedley.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/os2ports.smedley.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/os2ports.smedley.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/os2ports.smedley.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/os2ports.smedley.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions\/286"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/os2ports.smedley.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/os2ports.smedley.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}