What is Perl?
Perl (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language) is a general-purpose high-level programming language that is particularly adept at text processing and data conversion tasks. It was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 to facilitate text processing tasks on UNIX systems.Perl is widely used in Internet application development, system administration, data analysis, network programming, and more.

 

Why use Perl?
Perl's syntax is similar to C and shell scripts, but it has its own unique features, such as strong regular expression support, flexible variable types and scopes, built-in hash tables, etc. Perl also has a large number of built-in functions and modules, which makes Perl programming very efficient and convenient.
Perl is widely used in text processing, for example, Perl can easily extract data from text files, process XML and HTML documents, manipulate databases, and so on. In addition, Perl is also widely used in network programming and system administration. For example, Perl can write scripts to manage servers, execute system commands, send emails, and so on.
Although Perl has been replaced by languages such as Java, PHP, and Python in web application development, Perl is still a very useful language in the field of text processing and system administration.

 

How is Perl accessed?
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