Package: perl Maintainer: Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com> Vendor: Perl Version: 5.6.0 URL: http://www.perl.com/ Build-Depends: build-base, gnudiff Description: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language Perl is a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal).