Perl

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Released in 1987 Perl is a dynamic, general-purpose programming language that borrows features from a variety of other languages, including C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, sed and Lisp. Perl is a widely adopted language and provides powerful text processing facilities without the use of arbitrary data length limits. Perl was originally created for text manipulation however it is now used in order to accomplish a wide range of tasks, including, system administration, network programming, web development, GUI development and much more.

It is the goal of the Perl language to remain practical as opposed to beautiful and to remain simple to use and efficient. Its major features include, support for multiple programming paradigms (procedural, object-oriented, and functional styles), reference counting memory management (without a cycle detecting garbage collector), built-in support for text processing, and a large collection of third-party modules.