Perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language. Larry Wall
An AWK-like interpreted language for scanning text and
printing formatted reports. Regular expression primitives, dynamically-
scoped variables and functions, extensible runtime libraries, exception
handling, packages. Version 5 adds nested data structures and object-
oriented features. "Programming Perl", Larry Wall et al, OReilly &
Assocs.
ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl.4.0 for Unix, MS-DOS, Amiga
//ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5a1.tar.Z for Sparc
//rascal.utexas.edu/programming/Perl_402_MPW_CPT_bin for Mac
uucp: osu-cis
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