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What is Perl?
- Perl is a programming language
- It has a very flexible syntax
- It generally is run through an interpreter, instead of being compiled
- It is freely available for all modern computer types
- It is highly extensible, with many hundreds of modules (as
well as the ability to write your own)
- It is often used for dynamic content on the Web, also
Web-database integration
- It is not hard to get started with Perl, especially for people
familiar with C, C++ or Java, and somewhat familiar with Unix/Linux
tools including regular expressions
Why use Perl?
- Perl is relatively easy to learn, but very powerful
and extensible
- It has a forgiving syntax suitable for rapid prototyping
- Because it is intepreted, it is easy to share source code
across different types of computers
- Thanks to built-in functionality and extensibility, it can
take very few lines of Perl to accomplish very complicated tasks
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