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Perl Programming

Perl was first released in 1987, it is an high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. It was created by Larry Wall. The language is influenced by a number of programming language such as Lisp, C, C++, Pascal and others.

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What is the perl time function used for?

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The perl time function is used for the determination for how many seconds have passed since a certain date (most commonly Jan 1st 1970) you can find various methods online to determine this as well as other things such as checking of a leap year, determining the day and many more.

How reliable is Perl?

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This question is very nearly meaningless. Perl is a programming language; the reliability of any given Perl program depends on the talent and insight of the programmer.

How do you create an object in perl?

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Best is to use Moose or Mouse CPAN module.

Which numeric data type has storage capacity of 3 bytes?

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For Microsoft SQL Server there are no numeric values that consume 3 bytes. The numeric data types, their value range, and byte consumption as we follows:

Data type

Range

Storage

bigint

-2^63 (-9,223,372,036,854,775,808) to 2^63-1 (9,223,372,036,854,775,807)

8 Bytes

int

-2^31 (-2,147,483,648) to 2^31-1 (2,147,483,647)

4 Bytes

smallint

-2^15 (-32,768) to 2^15-1 (32,767)

2 Bytes

tinyint

0 to 255

1 Byte