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| author | Jesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com> | 2010-12-09 15:15:56 -0500 |
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| committer | Jesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com> | 2010-12-09 15:50:52 -0500 |
| commit | 72033c146ee0c87fbac69435dcc2e0b91a2465c8 (patch) | |
| tree | fa9947fece2d0734dfbc085acbff23c5576304af | |
| parent | a8ebcfe95ec8b1154af89ff11cafe446ac5f2dab (diff) | |
| download | perl-72033c146ee0c87fbac69435dcc2e0b91a2465c8.tar.gz | |
Slightly update perl.pod's "DESCRIPTION"
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod index 72dca8b204..fcab79e34d 100644 --- a/pod/perl.pod +++ b/pod/perl.pod @@ -263,12 +263,15 @@ often point out exactly where the trouble is. Perl officially stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language, except when it doesn't. -Perl is a language optimized for scanning arbitrary +Perl was originally a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing -reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many -system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical -(easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, -elegant, minimal). +reports based on that information. It quickly became a good language +for many system management tasks. Over the years, Perl has grown into +a general-purpose progammming language. It's widely used for everything +from quick "one-liners" to full-scale application development. + +The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, +complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal). Perl combines (in the author's opinion, anyway) some of the best features of C, B<sed>, B<awk>, and B<sh>, so people familiar with |