Description From http://www.iosn.net/education/foss-education-primer/fossPrimer-Education.pdf (CPU processing time, hard disk space, inputs from the keyboard, etc.) among the different applications that run on it. Examples of an O.S are Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Solaris and Mac O.S X. Foss 13/01/04 7:11 P.M Page 36 36 FREE/OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE I.N EDUCATION Perl Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) is an interpretive programming language designed to process text and is typically used for C.G.I scripts. Perl has been developed as an open source project and was started in 1987 by Larry Wall. Developed originally for U.N.I.X it is now available for different operating systems. P.H.P P.H.P originally stood for "Personal Home Page" Today it is a recursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext |