Perl
- usage: string manipulation, Web
- interpreted (well, actually compiled into opcodes automatically)
- long, evolutionary development (including introduction of Unicode using
UTF-8 internally)
- very strong on regular expressions
- ideomatic, more than one way to do things, compact
- More information: www.perl.org, www.perl.com, perluniintro,
perlunicode
- Disadvantage: Strings are special, not arrays of characters