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