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📊 Perl
Q. Perl Programming language is ___?
  • (A) General purpose programming language
  • (B) Dynamic programming language
  • (C) High-level interpreted programming language
  • (D) All of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) All of these

Explanation: Perl is a general-purpose, high-level interpreted, and dynamic programming language.

📊 Perl
Q. The creator of Perl programming language is ___.
  • (A) James Gosling
  • (B) Brendan Eich
  • (C) Larry Wall
  • (D) Bjarne Stroustrup
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) Larry Wall

Explanation: American Programmer Linguist Larry Wall, in December 1987 created Perl. The version Perl 1.0 was released for computers running on the UNIX operating system.

📊 Perl
Q. The year in which Perl was launched?
  • (A) 1986
  • (B) 1987
  • (C) 1988
  • (D) 1878
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) 1987

Explanation: In December 1987, American Programmer Linguist Larry Wall created Perl. The version Perl 1.0 was released for computers running on the UNIX operating system.

📊 Perl
Q. What are the benefits of the Perl programming language?
  • (A) Easy to learn
  • (B) Text Processing
  • (C) Easy to be embedded on web pages
  • (D) All of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) All of these

Explanation: Some benefits of Perl are:

Easy to learn
Easy of text processing
Easy to embed on web pages

📊 Perl
Q. What is the file extension for the Perl program?
  • (A) .pl
  • (B) .perl
  • (C) .prl
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) .pl

Explanation: The extension .pl is used to create a Perl file.

📊 Perl
Q. What is the syntax to create multiline comments in Perl?
  • (A) =start =end
  • (B) #begin #cut
  • (C) =begin =cut
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) =begin =cut

Explanation: The syntax for creating a multiline comment in Perl is:

=begin
=cut

📊 Perl
Q. What are the disadvantages of Perl over C/C++?
  • (A) No main() [driver] function
  • (B) Support closures
  • (C) It is interpreted language
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) None of these

Explanation: The Perl programming language is better than the C/C++ programming language. So common advantages include:

No main () function that acts as entry point to the program.
It is interpreted language leading to faster compilation.

📊 Perl
Q. Which of the following is not a concept of OOP?
  • (A) Encapsulation
  • (B) Class
  • (C) Abstraction
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) None of these

Explanation: The concepts of OOPs are:

Class
Object
Method
Polymorphism
Inheritance
Encapsulation
Abstraction

📊 Perl
Q. Method in Perl is?
  • (A) Time savers
  • (B) User to reuse code w/o retyping the code
  • (C) Collections of statement that perform specific tasks
  • (D) All of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) All of these

Explanation: Method/subroutine in Perl is a block of code (collection of statements) that performs a specific task in peril.

It can save programmer time and user code as one function can be called multiple times.

📊 Perl
Q. Is the following statement correct for Perl?
"Data Abstraction displays only the essential details to the user"
  • (A) true
  • (B) false
  • (C) ---
  • (D) ---
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) true

Explanation: Data Abstraction displays only the essential details to the user. It is the process of binding together data and related functions in a single unit.

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