Perl

Perl definition - hacker
A popular scripting language that runs on a wide variety of platforms, including UNIX and Windows. PERL is open source, easily integrated into Web servers for CGI, easy to learn, and supports a large library of utilities.

See Also: Common Gateway Interface (CGI Scripts, cgi-bin); Open Source; Programming Languages C, C++, Perl, and Java; Server; UNIX.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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