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Perl and JavaScript

Perl and JavaScript

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Perl and JavaScript

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- You've already learned a little bit about scripting and a little bit about how to write Python programs, which are often called scripts, but there are other languages out there as well. It's important to at least have an awareness of Perl and JavaScript. Knowing a little bit about those languages will allow you to write more scripts that will fill more needs, and most importantly, you'll be able to read scripts that other developers wrote. So let's take a quick look at Perl and JavaScript. First is Perl. Now, Perl is a flexible, general purpose scripting language. Actually, it's a family of two languages. The original Perl, which matured at Perl version five, is still just called Perl. The newer version, Perl version six, is now called Raku. So they're really two separate languages and they've taken a divergent path. So they're becoming less and less a clone of one another, but they still have a common heritage and they also share a lot of new ideas. So if a new feature is rolled…

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