Perl Script File

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Perl is a programming language that has been in use for over 20 years.

Features in Perl are.

  » High quality code

  » Object oriented, procedural and functional programming

  » Easily extensible

  » Text manipulation

  » Unicode support

  » Database integration

  » C/C++ library interface

  » Embeddable

  » Open Source

Perl is often used for web based applications and is often found in use for Guest Books and Counters, Forums etc other uses can be Web Frameworks or modules it also supports encryption and when embedded to a web server such as Apache can speed up the processing.

Script files written in Perl use the extension .pl.