What is Perl?
Perl is a high-level programming language with an eclectic heritage written by Larry Wall and a cast of thousands. It derives from the ubiquitous C programming language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk, the Unix shell, and at least a dozen other tools and languages. Perl’s process, file, and text manipulation facilities make it particularly well-suited for tasks involving quick prototyping, system utilities, software tools, system management tasks, database access, graphical programming, networking, and world wide web programming. These strengths make it especially popular with system administrators and CGI script authors, but mathematicians, geneticists, journalists, and even managers also use Perl.
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peter said,
June 8, 2006 @ 10:13 am
Perl is a general-purpose programming language used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, text manipulation, GUI development etc. Its major features are it’s easy to use, supports both procedural and object-oriented programming, has powerful built-in support for text processing, and has a large collection of third-party modules.
james said,
June 8, 2006 @ 12:14 pm
Perl is a server-side, interpreted programming language that is supported on many computer platforms and frequently used for creating CGI programs on Web servers bcoz it is faster than UNIX shell script programs. It is very popular due to the fact that it is free.
Edward said,
June 8, 2006 @ 12:41 pm
James, it is not very popular now, however this is true that it is extermly powerful but much more complex than needed for a programmer, possibly that is the reason it is fading away now.
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