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02:4402:44, 5 July 2026 diff hist +578 Portal:Perl Powered Programs (PPP) No edit summary Tag: Visual edit: Switched
02:4202:42, 5 July 2026 diff hist +4,276 Portal:Perl Powered Programs (PPP) No edit summary
02:3302:33, 5 July 2026 diff hist +1,619 Developing and Distributing wxPerl Applications on Windows →Installation

15:4415:44, 3 July 2026 diff hist −191 Portal:Linux →Overview by distribution family current Tag: Visual edit: Switched
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15:2915:29, 3 July 2026 diff hist +2,160 Portal:Linux →Overview by distribution family
15:2615:26, 3 July 2026 diff hist +30,140 N Portal:Linux Created page with "== Linux Distributions and Perl == Perl has been closely associated with Linux since the early years of the operating system. Linux inherited much of its userland culture from Unix, and Perl fit naturally into that world: text files, log files, shell scripts, package metadata, system administration, web hosting, mail processing, build systems, and automation. For much of Linux history, a user could reasonably assume that `/usr/bin/perl` existed on a normal installed sys..."
15:1915:19, 3 July 2026 diff hist +19,112 Portal:FreeBSD,OpenBSD,etc No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit: Switched
15:1315:13, 3 July 2026 diff hist +18,624 N Portal:FreeBSD,OpenBSD,etc Created page with "== FreeBSD and Perl == FreeBSD has had a long and complicated relationship with Perl. In the 1990s, Perl was close to the Unix system-administration culture from which FreeBSD also grew. Perl was useful for build tools, package tools, administrative scripts, text processing, reporting, mail processing, ports maintenance, and the daily work of Unix developers and system administrators. FreeBSD eventually made an important design decision: Perl should remain available an..."
15:1215:12, 3 July 2026 diff hist +24 Main Page No edit summary
15:0615:06, 3 July 2026 diff hist +24,705 N Portal:SaaS and Web Development Created page with "== Perl and the Early Web == Perl was one of the foundational languages of the early dynamic web. Before modern web frameworks, application servers, JavaScript-heavy front ends, containers, and cloud platforms, many interactive websites were built from small scripts running behind a web server. In that environment, Perl was exceptionally well suited to the job. It could read form input, parse query strings, talk to databases, generate HTML, send mail, process files, and..." current
15:0115:01, 3 July 2026 diff hist +22,492 N Portal:Graphics Programming Created page with "== Perl and Graphics Programming == Perl has a long and practical history in graphics programming. It has rarely been promoted as a mainstream language for commercial graphics engines, but it has been widely useful for image processing, chart generation, web graphics, scientific visualization, GUI canvas drawing, batch conversion, file-format manipulation, and automated graphics workflows. Perl’s graphics story follows the larger Perl pattern: Perl is often strongest..." current
14:5614:56, 3 July 2026 diff hist +22,313 N Portal:Life Sciences Created page with "== Perl and Bioinformatics == Perl has a special place in the history of bioinformatics. Although it was not created for biology, Perl became one of the defining programming languages of early computational biology, genomics, and sequence analysis. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Perl was widely used in genome centers, university laboratories, biotechnology companies, and open-source bioinformatics projects because it was exceptionally good at the kind of work biological..." current
14:5314:53, 3 July 2026 diff hist +25,840 N Portal:HPC - High Performance Computing Created page with "== Perl and High-Performance Computing == Perl has never been the dominant language for high-performance computing in the way that Fortran, C, C++, CUDA, or MPI-oriented scientific codes have been. Nevertheless, Perl has a meaningful and underappreciated history in HPC. Its role has usually been practical: data preparation, workflow orchestration, job submission, file conversion, scientific scripting, parallel task control, database integration, report generation, and g..." current
14:4814:48, 3 July 2026 diff hist +21,349 N Portal:Crypto and Blockchain Created page with "== Perl, Bitcoin, and Cryptocurrency == Perl’s relationship with Bitcoin and cryptocurrency follows the same pattern seen throughout Perl history: Perl is rarely the center of the fashionable new platform, but it is often useful at the edges where real systems need automation, parsing, cryptography, APIs, databases, monitoring, reporting, and glue code. Cryptocurrency systems combine several areas where Perl has long been strong: cryptography, text and binary encodin..." current
14:4214:42, 3 July 2026 diff hist +31,911 N Portal:Artificial Intelligence Created page with "== Perl and AI Interfaces == Perl’s relationship with artificial intelligence is older and broader than the modern large-language-model boom. Although Perl is not usually the first language associated with contemporary AI research, it has long been useful for AI-adjacent work: text processing, rule systems, data preparation, classification, search, automation, API integration, model-serving glue code, and scientific computation. Perl’s AI history is best understood..." current
14:3314:33, 3 July 2026 diff hist +16,599 N Portal:Game Development Created page with "== Perl and Game Development == Perl has never been primarily known as a game-development language, but it has a long and interesting relationship with games, interactive programming, simulations, graphics experiments, terminal applications, web games, and game-development tooling. Perl’s role in game development reflects the language’s larger history: it is practical, expressive, good at text and data, easy to use for prototypes, and unusually effective as glue bet..." current
14:3114:31, 3 July 2026 diff hist +18,645 N Portal:Databases Created page with "== Perl and Data Development == Perl has been closely tied to data development from its beginning. Before it was known as a web language, Perl was a Unix programmer’s language for extracting, transforming, reporting, and automating work around text files, logs, configuration files, mail, system output, and structured records. Its original strengths—regular expressions, flexible arrays and hashes, file handling, pipes, process control, and concise string manipulation..." current
14:2614:26, 3 July 2026 diff hist +1,174 Portal:Perl History No edit summary current
14:2214:22, 3 July 2026 diff hist +13,796 N Portal:Perl History Created page with "== History of Perl == '''Perl''' is a family of high-level, general-purpose programming languages best known for text processing, system administration, web programming, automation, and the culture of practical problem solving that grew around it. The language was created by Larry Wall, who released Perl 1.0 on December 18, 1987, while working as a programmer in the Unix world.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Perl |url=https://www.perl.org/about.html |website=Perl.org |..."
02:5802:58, 3 July 2026 diff hist +151 Perl and wxWidgets RAD on Windows No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
01:3301:33, 3 July 2026 diff hist +16,842 N Perl and wxWidgets RAD on Windows Created page with "== Perl and wxWidgets RAD on Windows == This page provides background on earlier efforts to support Perl-based desktop GUI development on Windows, especially through wxWidgets, wxPerl, GUI builders, packaging tools, and installer systems. The short version is that Perl has had many of the pieces needed for Windows GUI development, but it has not had a durable, unified rapid application development environment comparable to Lazarus for Free Pascal. == Big Picture == P..."
01:2601:26, 3 July 2026 diff hist +231 Developing and Distributing wxPerl Applications on Windows →Martha - A lightweight wxPerl helper for packaging Perl applications on Windows Tag: Visual edit: Switched
01:2501:25, 3 July 2026 diff hist +903 Developing and Distributing wxPerl Applications on Windows No edit summary Tag: Visual edit: Switched