Perl - Revision history

http://freebsdwiki.net/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Perl Perl - Revision history 2026-04-23T17:55:10Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.18.0 http://freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Perl&diff=10517&oldid=prev Jimbo: Reverted edits by 213.155.88.87 (Talk); changed back to last version by Jimbo 2008-07-29T13:18:38Z

<p>Reverted edits by <a href="/index.php/Special:Contributions/213.155.88.87" title="Special:Contributions/213.155.88.87">213.155.88.87</a> (<a href="/index.php?title=User_talk:213.155.88.87&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User talk:213.155.88.87 (page does not exist)">Talk</a>); changed back to last version by <a href="/index.php/User:Jimbo" title="User:Jimbo">Jimbo</a></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='1' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='1' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 13:18, 29 July 2008</td> </tr></table>

Jimbo http://freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Perl&diff=4652&oldid=prev Dave at 20:45, 12 September 2004 2004-09-12T20:45:02Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 20:45, 12 September 2004</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:FreeBSD Terminology]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:FreeBSD Terminology]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:Ports and Packages]]</ins></div></td></tr>  </table>

Dave http://freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Perl&diff=411&oldid=prev 24.168.196.176 at 03:34, 11 September 2004 2004-09-11T03:34:24Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 03:34, 11 September 2004</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Perl is intensely cross-platform - it is difficult to think of a hardware platform that doesn't support a Perl implementation, and a careful programmer can easily build very complex scripts or apps in Perl that require no porting at all to run on different platforms.  It is also very flexible, and is used commonly for both CGI scripting for webservers as well as a tool to automate many system administration functions, and even to build complex applications.  Finally, perl is extremely extensible through the use of Modules, which can take the form of anything from perl subroutines themselves to machine-level code, and which may be gotten from [[CPAN]] and built into the base interpreter.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Perl is intensely cross-platform - it is difficult to think of a hardware platform that doesn't support a Perl implementation, and a careful programmer can easily build very complex scripts or apps in Perl that require no porting at all to run on different platforms.  It is also very flexible, and is used commonly for both CGI scripting for webservers as well as a tool to automate many system administration functions, and even to build complex applications.  Finally, perl is extremely extensible through the use of Modules, which can take the form of anything from perl subroutines themselves to machine-level code, and which may be gotten from [[CPAN]] and built into the base interpreter.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Categories</del>:FreeBSD Terminology]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Category</ins>:FreeBSD Terminology]]</div></td></tr>  </table>

24.168.196.176 http://freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Perl&diff=356&oldid=prev 24.168.196.176 at 03:33, 11 September 2004 2004-09-11T03:33:56Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 03:33, 11 September 2004</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A programming </del>language for <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">masochists</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Sometimes considered acronymic for Practical Extraction and Report Language, although there are those (myself included) who think that's more likely to be a retronym.  Usage supports this belief, since the </ins>language <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">may be referred to correctly as either Perl or perl, but not PERL.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Perl is a scripting language similar to C but with more high-level functions built in.  Also unlike C, Perl is interpreted, not compiled - but uses insane levels of precompilation and automatic optimization that can often make perl scripts actually more efficient at runtime than C applications.  Some people have even gone so far as to write device drivers in perl, although that is a rather bizarre and not recommended usage.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Perl is intensely cross-platform - it is difficult to think of a hardware platform that doesn't support a Perl implementation, and a careful programmer can easily build very complex scripts or apps in Perl that require no porting at all to run on different platforms.  It is also very flexible, and is used commonly </ins>for <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">both CGI scripting for webservers as well as a tool to automate many system administration functions, and even to build complex applications.  Finally, perl is extremely extensible through the use of Modules, which can take the form of anything from perl subroutines themselves to machine-level code, and which may be gotten from [[CPAN]] and built into the base interpreter</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Categories:FreeBSD Terminology]]</ins></div></td></tr>  </table>

24.168.196.176 http://freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Perl&diff=355&oldid=prev Dave at 06:25, 10 September 2004 2004-09-10T06:25:51Z

<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>A programming language for masochists.</div>

Dave