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perl
Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language
System and Utilities
Developmentperl
Description
Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier.
Perl borrows features from other programming languages including C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, and sed. The language provides powerful text processing facilities without the arbitrary data-length limits of many contemporary Unix tools, facilitating easy manipulation of text files.
In addition to CGI, Perl is used for graphics programming, system administration, network programming, finance, bioinformatics, and other applications. Perl is nicknamed 'the Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages' because of its flexibility and power, and possibly also because of its perceived 'ugliness'.
Install
Channel stable v5.42.2-1
This app is curated in HaikuPorts. Install it from there, it is already available in HaikuDepot.
pkgman install perl
Careful: the file comes from HaikuPorts' own server, but installing it by hand is not the way in. It is pkgman that resolves the dependencies an .hpkg does not carry with it, and a package installed on its own may simply not run. Use the pkgman command above, unless you know exactly why you want the file.