Perl
From JVMLanguages
| Programming Language | |
|---|---|
| Type | Imperative |
| Scope | Scripting |
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Summary
Perl is one of the oldest and most mature of the scripting languages.
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Advantages
- Perl has a very large repository of open-source modules called CPAN (http://search.cpan.org/), which provides modules to do anything from database queries (http://search.cpan.org/modlist/Database_Interfaces) and GUI development (http://search.cpan.org/modlist/User_Interfaces) to calculating baseball statistics (http://search.cpan.org/~victor/Baseball-Sabermetrics-0.01_01/lib/Baseball/Sabermetrics.pm).
- Perl's Inline (http://search.cpan.org/author/INGY/Inline-0.44/Inline.pod) module provides support for embedding other languages inside of Perl source code.
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Java Integration
- JPL was an early attempt by Larry Wall to integrate Java and Perl.
- BSFPerl can act as a transparent bridge between a Perl interpreter and a Java VM.
- The
Inline::JavaPerl module can executed Java code from within Perl code.
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Examples
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External Links
- The Perl Directory (http://perl.org/)
