Found 8 records for the .PL file extension name
There are 7 other file types using the PL file extension:
.pl - Harvard palette
.pl - Interleaf printerleaf (or WorldView) format
.pl - PROLOG language source code file
.pl - TeX property list font metric file
.pl - BRL-CAD 2D and 3D plot file
.pl - Fractal Zplot palette file
.pl - Linux Shell executable binary
file extension PL - Perl script language source code file
.PLFile extension PL description:
Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language. It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors and is widely used to program web applications of all needs.
The .pl suffix is rare on the web, because Perl scripts are usually served as .cgi. Perl is popular enough that there are a few out there, though. Although Perl won't let you insert code into static HTML pages, it does have a library specifically for generating web pages. Using the Perl CGI library, you can generate all the parts of each web page using a specialized function; a command to generate the
Mime: text/x-script.perl
Mime: text/plain
Associated applications to file extension PL:
Company / developer:
Notepad++ Team
Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.
Notepad++ Portable is the handy Notepad++ text editor packaged as a portable app so you can do your development on the go. It has all the same great features of Notepad++ including support for multiple languages and an extensive plugin system, but there's nothing to install.
Features
Notepad++ Portable is a full-featured text editor with features like:
- Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding (C, C++, HTML, ASP, Java, Pascal, CSS and more)
- User Defined Syntax Highlighting
- Auto-completion
- Multi-Document
- Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
- Full Drag ‘N' Drop supported
- Zoom in and zoom out
- Multi-Language environment supported
- Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
- Macro recording and playback
Company / developer: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe ExtendScript
The ExtendScript Toolkit (ESTK) is a development and debugging tool for JavaScript scripts included with Adobe CS3 Suites and applications such as Bridge, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects. ESTK is a new and enhanced version that allows you to create, edit and debug ExtendScript (Adobe's JavaScript language) all with an updated user interface, a new text engine, and the ability to debug more than one script at a time.
Company / developer: Perl
Perl Facts
- Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language.
- It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors.
- Perl is Open Source software, licensed under its Artistic License, or the GNU General Public License (GPL).
- Perl was created by Larry Wall.
- Perl 1.0 was released to usenet's alt.comp.sources in 1987
- PC Magazine named Perl a finalist for its 1998 Technical Excellence Award in the Development Tool category.
- Perl is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Supported Operating Systems
- Unix systems
- Macintosh - (OS 7-9 and X) see The MacPerl Pages.
- Windows
- VMS
- And many more...
Perl Features
- Perl takes the best features from other languages, such as C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC, among others.
- Perls database integration interface (DBI) supports third-party databases including Oracle, Sybase, Postgres, MySQL and others.
- Perl works with HTML, XML, and other mark-up languages.
- Perl supports Unicode.
- Perl is Y2K compliant.
- Perl supports both procedural and object-oriented programming.
- Perl interfaces with external C/C++ libraries through XS or SWIG.
- Perl is extensible. There are over 500 third party modules available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN).
- The Perl interpreter can be embedded into other systems.
Perl and the Web
- Perl is the most popular web programming language due to its text manipulation capabilities and rapid development cycle.
- Perl is widely known as " the duct-tape of the Internet".
- Perl's CGI.pm module, part of Perl's standard distribution, makes handling HTML forms simple.
- Perl can handle encrypted Web data, including e-commerce transactions.
- Perl can be embedded into web servers to speed up processing by as much as 2000%.
- mod_perl allows the Apache web server to embed a Perl interpreter.
- Perl's DBI package makes web-database integration easy.