Perl

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Perl is a dynamic programming language with a C like syntax with several extensions often used for it's text processing abilities and its built in extensive regular expression support.

These days, it is a general purpose language with the ability to create GUIs and it has full database support.

Perl is not strongly typed and does not require variables to be predefined. It has strong support for shell functions, like executing and waiting for the result is a built in operation in the language. Perl is known for the easy way that a perl program can become unreadable.