perl-DB: perl-DB perl-DB: perl-DB: Larry Wall's "Practical Extraction and Report Language". Perl is a perl-DB: language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting perl-DB: information from those text files, and printing reports based on that perl-DB: information. It's also a good language for many system management perl-DB: tasks. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, perl-DB: efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal). perl-DB: perl-DB: perl-DB: