jan 1, 1987 - The programming language Perl was created.

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Perl is a programming language developed in 1987 by Larry Wall. The 2 core beliefs behind Perl were:

1. there should be more than one way to do things
2. " Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible"

Perl is similar in structure to C and is used for CGI, system administration, network programming, and finance.

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