.perl
1 claimant
0 primary
1 secondary
secondary-only
SWH popularity
From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.
46.2K
total occurrences
5.6K
since 2019 (12.2%)
1970–2023
years active
Case variants in archive: .perl (45.5K), .Perl (650), .PERL (72) — aggregated above.
Attribution status
This extension is attributed to Perl — every claim across all sources (including secondary ones) points to a single language.
Authoritative sources: △ Linguist · secondary △ Pygments · secondary ✗ Wikidata · no claim ✗ Wikipedia · no claim
Claimants (2)
Languages that list
.perl among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.| Language | Source | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| Perl | linguist | secondary |
| Perl | pygments | secondary |
SWH-mined examples (0)
No archived examples for .perl in our local mirror yet.