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Perl, an Uncommon card
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 88
- DEF
- 84
- Power
- 172
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 170,000
Power 172 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Perl quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Perl card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Since then, it has ______ many changes and revisions.
Answer
undergone. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions. From the Perl article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Perl was developed by Larry Wall in ____ as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier.
Answer
1980s. Perl was developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. From the Perl article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Perl. Perl 88 · Surat 84 · Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw 81 · Diego Godín 78 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, including "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language".
- Perl was developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier.
- Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Perl article was read about 170,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 88 and blocks with 84: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Perl
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Society cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Perl in the power ranking, all domains together.
- A. J. GreenUncommon · Society · ATK 86 DEF 86
- Bob BacklundUncommon · History · ATK 81 DEF 91
- Giant anteaterUncommon · Nature · ATK 76 DEF 96
- SaunaUncommon · Arts · ATK 83 DEF 89
- AdivasiUncommon · Society · ATK 88 DEF 84
- Adrenal glandUncommon · Science · ATK 76 DEF 96
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Perl (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Created for us by Zach Roszczewski and commissioned by Neil Bowers., CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
