The Art of Perl: How a Scripting Language (inter)Activated the World Wide Web

The Art of Perl: How a Scripting Language (inter)Activated the World Wide Web

In 1987, computer programmer and linguist Larry Wall authored the general-purpose, high-level, interpreted, dynamic Unix scripting language, Perl. Borrowing features from C and awk, Perl was originally intended as a scripting language for text-processing. However, with the rising popularity of the I...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gomez, Norberto, Jr.
Format: Others
Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2013
Subjects:
digital culture
Perl
World Wide Web
Internet
digital art
computer
Wall
Larry
postmodernism
scripting language
programming language
web 2.0
post web
social web
net art
web art
chat room
4chan
anonymous
social space
online
Thayer
Pall
Mendoza
Antonio
Lialina
Olia
digital folklore
hacker
open source
digital history
Internet history
social media
social network
media studies
cultural studies
media archaeology
Art and Design
Arts and Humanities
Interdisciplinary Arts and Media
Online Access:http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/472
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