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<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In addition to CGI, Perl 5 is used for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_graphics_(computer_science)" title="Computer graphics (computer science)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">graphics programming</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_administrator" title="System administrator" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">system administration</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network_programming" title="Computer network programming" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">network programming</a>, finance,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics" title="Bioinformatics" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">bioinformatics</a>, and other applications. It has been nicknamed "the Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages" because of its flexibility and power,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.1999998092651px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> and possibly also because of its "ugliness".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.1999998092651px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup> In 1998, it was also referred to as the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape" title="Duct tape" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">duct tape</a> that holds the Internet together", in reference to both its ubiquitous use as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glue_language" title="Glue language" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">glue language</a> and its perceived inelegance.<sup id="cite_ref-leonard98_16-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.1999998092651px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#cite_note-leonard98-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall" title="Larry Wall" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Larry Wall</a> began work on Perl in 1987, while working as a programmer at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisys" title="Unisys" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Unisys</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-programmingperl_9-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.1999998092651px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#cite_note-programmingperl-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></sup> and released version 1.0 to the comp.sources.misc <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroup" title="Newsgroup" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">newsgroup</a> on December 18, 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.1999998092651px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a></sup>The language expanded rapidly over the next few years.</p>