PERL

What Is Perl?
Perl is a general-purpose programming language invented in 1987 by Larry Wall. With over one million users worldwide, it has become the language of choice for World Wide Web development, text processing, Internet services, mail filtering, graphical programming, systems administration, and every other task requiring portable and easily-developed solutions.

Supported Operating Systems
Perl started on Unix systems as a system administration tool.
Perl runs on the Macintosh - see The MacPerl Pages.
Perl runs on Microsoft Windows - see ActiveState Tools Corp.

Perl Features
Perl takes the best features from other languages, such as C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC, among others.
Perl works with third-party databases like Oracle, Sybase, Postgres, and many others through the abstract database interface called DBI.
Perl can work with HTML, XML, and other mark-up languages.
Perl has Unicode support.
Perl always has been and always will be Y2K compliant.
Perl supports both procedural and object-oriented programming.
Perl can interface with external C/C++ libraries through XS or SWIG.
Development of Java-Perl Lingo (JPL) will ...
Perl is Open Source

Top Links

Perl.Com
CPAN
The Perl Institute
use Perl
Perl Monks
The University of Florida Perl Archive
Perl Paraphernalia

Copyright 2003 Harold Carey Jr.
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