BigPerl
(ver 4.0pl36)
Abandoned Freeware


BigPerl is a version of Perl 4.0 patchlevel 36 for MSDOS.  It has
been compiled using the WATCOM C/C++^32 compiler, version 10.0, which
generates flat, 32-bit code that runs under MSDOS and Windows.  This
MSDOS version does not have any 640K limitations, but it does require a
386, 486, or Pentium with at least 4MB of RAM.  It will not run on a 286
or lesser processor.

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming 
language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a 
general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier.

Perl borrows features from other programming languages including C, shell 
scripting (sh), AWK, and sed. The language provides powerful text processing 
facilities without the arbitrary data length limits of many contemporary 
Unix tools,[4] facilitating easy manipulation of text files. It is also used 
for graphics programming, system administration, network programming, 
applications that require database access and CGI programming on the Web.