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