Perl programming on mMPE/iX - August 2001

HP World Page 2August 21, 2001
introduction and history
• Practical Extraction and Report Language
• Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister?
• the Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages
• optimized for text processing
• combines the best of C, sh, awk, and sed
• released in 1987 by Larry Wall
• initially ported to MPE by Mark Klein
• re-ported by Mark Bixby in 1997 with periodic updates since then
• "There's more than one way to do it!"