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11 things about Perl Programming Language

1. In 1991, Programming Perl, known to many Perl programmers as the "Camel Book" because of its cover, was published and became the de facto reference for the language.

2. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier.

3. At the same time, the Perl version number was bumped to 4, not to mark a major change in the language but to identify the version that was documented by the book.

4. Larry Wall continues to oversee development of the core language, and its upcoming version, Perl 6.

5. The classic Perl programming language for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

6. The application is especially useful for learning the Perl programming language.

7. Larry Wall began work on Perl in 1987, while working as a programmer at Unisys, and released version 1.0 to the comp.sources.misc newsgroup on December 18, 1987.

8. Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.

9. In addition to CGI, Perl is used for graphics programming, system administration, network programming, finance, bioinformatics, and other applications.

10. Perl gained widespread popularity in the late 1990s as a CGI scripting language, in part due to its parsing abilities.

11. Perl borrows features from other programming languages including C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, and sed.