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Perl

Perl is an interpreted language devised by Larry Wall[17]. It is used by many tools, and indeed has been used as the implementation language for a couple of HTTP servers. It is copyright-protected, but available free of charge from:

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/perl-4.036.tar.gz

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
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