Perl
/pɜːl/ noun [U]Definition
› IT, INTERNET abbreviation for Practical Extraction and Report Language: a computing language used for web servers (= computer systems that find and send web pages when internet users ask for them)
(Definition of Perl noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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