Perl is also known as
"Practical Extraction and Report Language
" which is compatible with Unix, MVS, VMS, MS/DOS, Macintosh, OS/2, Amiga, and other operating systems. Perl has so many built in powerful text-manipulation functions. Many good features and purposes of many command languages are combined with Perl.
Perl has enjoyed recent popularity for programming WWW e-forms and generally works as glue between systems, databases, and users. As Perl allows the easy manipulation of files, process information, and many other items, PERL is the perfect tool for system administrators. PERL is also great for people who write cgi-bin scripts to process web forms because it has so many useful string manipulation functions.
There are two Reasons of popularity of Perl:
• Most of what is being done on the Web happens with text, and is best done with a language that's designed for text processing.
• Perl was appreciably better than the alternatives at the time when people needed something to use.
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