Perl
Etymology
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Etymology
A respelling of its original name Pearl, a reference to Matthew 13:46.
A common backronymic explanation is “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language”.
Proper noun- (computer language) A family of high-level programming languages, particularly used for text processing.
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