Description : While this book demonstrates how Perl is used to give Web pages more depth in their interactivity, Perl wasn't created to do this. It was originally created because someone wanted to make their job of administering a large network a little easier. All the programming tools available then didn't work as well as he or she needed them to, so out popped Perl. The man who created Perl was Larry Wall. Perl stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language. Some time ago Larry Wall wanted to develop a better way to create debugging reports. He was working in the UNIX operating system trying to produce bug reports from a Usenet-new-like hierarchy of files. He first tried the UNIX utility awk to do this, but he couldn't get the results he needed. Awk is a common UNIX utility that uses regular expressions to manipulate and process text. Building on this application, Wall developed the first version of Perl. This new tool proved handier than he had first anticipated, so he gave copies of this new language to some other UNIX programmers. They worked with Perl and made it perform more tasks. Wall then developed Perl to a state where he could release it as a general systems administrator utility for the greater UNIX world.
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Publisher Ziff-Davis Press Author(s) Jonathan Hagey ISBN 1562764209
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