what is PERL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE....WHAT is usage of this language...is it web based...or staldalone ....?

Question

what is PERL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE....WHAT is usage of this language...is it web based...or staldalone ....?

Answer 1

perl has been called the Swiss army knife of scripting languages. also the duct tape that holds the Internet together. it's flexibility and potential usefulness flows parallel with the programmers abilities. a brand new programmer can start using it to some degree within minutes. a very experienced programmer can make perl wash their car and take out the trash (not really but almost.)



It is great for strings (text) such as web apps. it is also used in many linux system scripts. it is a just in time compiled language meaning that one don't normally compile an exe file like some languages such as c++. so the machine running the script must have perl installed in order to run.



Although it is possible to create a sort of standalone exe's.



perl can be ran on just about any OS if one is determined enough. one can obtain ready to go installers online for windows, mac, linux and others.



one other thing about perl. it tends to bring out a lot of know-it-alls and s'not heads. the ones that spend as much time insulting as it would to answer. but i don't think that is included as a core module of perl. i believe that module must be installed separately "ppm install Knowit-All"

Answer 2

Perl is mainly used in text processing used both in web programming as well as offline programs also.Mainly used for lot of string processing.

Answer 3

Did you do ANY research yourself before posting?



Wikipedia has a decent article re PERL.

Answer 4

Do you really not know how to search for something via Google?



http://www.perl.org/



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl



http://www.cpan.org/