Perl
Perl was born out of the need for a language ideal for extracting information from text files and the generation of reports. Perl is a useful tool for programmers (the existence of shortcuts that qualify it as a "diagonal" language) rather than meeting an aesthetic need for strict architecture (orthogonal languages). Perl is a scripting language; it is very complete and multi-platform, and is considered one of the building blocks of the Web.
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