Creation and History
Perl was the brainchild of linguist and NASA sysadmin Larry Wall, who developed it in the late 1980s as a language designed to make report processing easier. Since that time, it has grown beyond this original role to take on such tasks as automated system administration and connecting different computer systems together. It has also become one of the most popular languages for programming Common Gateway Interfaces (CGIs) on the Internet.
Resources
For the purposes of this blog, I will be using Beginning Perl (available free online at perl.org/books/beginning-perl/) as my primary resource for learning the syntax and conventions of the Perl language. I will be creating and executing my Perl scripts through the Padre IDE (padre.perlide.org/).
There are many things about Perl that make it a unique language, not the least of which is the compact syntax. Your paragraph above does not prepare the reader for what they are about to embark on in this adventure into Perl. Perhaps just a quick preview of what the syntax looks like?
ReplyDeleteIt's very interesting that it was developed by a member of NASA, can't go wrong there!
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