Practical extraction and reporting language. Perl is a stable programming language. It is great for automating tasks, especially system administration chores. It is Open Source which means its free.
PERL was created by Larry Wall. PERL is sometimes called the duct-tape of the internet. PERL can be used with popular database programs and implemented into websites as well.
Where can you get PERL? http://www.perl.org/get.html
Website on PERL http://www.perl.org/news.html
The PERL Journal http://www.tpj.com/
Examle of PERL code:
A cheap alarm clock: perl -e ’sleep(120); while (1) { print “\a” }’
Perl beats C++ and Java anyday for log file processing!!!
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