10 lines
573 B
Markdown
10 lines
573 B
Markdown
# perl
|
|
|
|
Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell scripting.
|
|
Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially good at handling text.
|
|
Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency.
|
|
While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common applications (and what it excels at) are probably system administration utilities and web programming.
|
|
A large proportion of the CGI scripts on the web are written in Perl.
|
|
You need the perl package installed on your system so that your system can handle Perl scripts.
|
|
|