Perl
Practical Extract and Report Language
Perl is a modern high level scripting language written by Larry Wall. Most modern Unix and Linux systems come with it as standard, and many key distro applications are often written using it. Perl is a scripting language with a shell/c heritage, that is designed to get things done. Over the years it has evolved into a very powerful object-oriented language, and while complex applications can be written in it, it is not really designed to be used for time or memory critical applications, as Perl trades CPU and RAM for ease [continued…]