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Perl vs Perlish - What's the difference?

perl | perlish |

As a proper noun Perl

is a text-oriented programming language family, widely used in Internet applications.

As an adjective Perlish is

typical of, or suited to, the Perl programming language.

perl

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A text-oriented programming language family, widely used in Internet applications.
  • * Wikipedia, „Pearl“ article
    • „In addition to CGI, Perl 5 is used for graphics programming, system administration, network programming, finance, bioinformatics, and other applications. It has been humorously nicknamed "the Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages" because of its flexibility and power, and possibly also because of its "ugliness". In 1998, it was also referred to as the "duct tape that holds the Internet together", in reference to both its ubiquitous use as a glue language and its perceived inelegance.“
    „Perl'' was originally named "Pearl". […] The name is occasionally expanded as ''Practical Extraction and Report Language'', but this is a backronym. Other expansions have been suggested as equally canonical, including Wall's own humorous ''Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister . Indeed, Wall claims that the name was intended to inspire many different expansions.“
    „It is often said that "Only perl can parse Perl''", meaning that only the ''Perl'' interpreter (perl) can parse the ''Perl'' language (''Perl ), but even this is not, in general, true.“

    Hypernyms

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    Hyponyms

    * Perl 5 * Perl 6

    References

    * ("Perl" on Wikipedia)

    perlish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (computing, programming, informal) Typical of, or suited to, the Perl programming language.
  • * 2004 , Ian F Darwin, Java Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Java Developers
    • Incidentally, the eval { } block around the method call is the Perlish way of catching exceptions.
  • * 2005 , Damian Conway, Perl Best Practices
    • Second, the standard domain-specific notation you're recreating in your Perl class must conform to the Perlish precedences and associativities.
  • * 2006 , Jeffrey Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions
    • In this chapter, I'll try to present examples in a more Perlish style of Perl.

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