Perl is a language originally developed for use in Unix systems to manipulate large amounts of text. It has evolved into a very powerful general purpose scripting language that is commonly used to produce programs the run though the CGI (the Common Gateway Interface) on web servers.

Perl is especially good at processing large and arbitrary amounts of text, such as logs or user input. Later versions can access databases, and even be used to produce Windows applications. Perl syntax can be difficult to read, but once mastered, there is little you cannot do with Perl. In fact, BBR itself is written in Perl.

Perl 1.0 was released in 1987. It was created by Larry Wall. Perl runs just about everywhere: Unix (all), Macintosh (OS 8 and X), Windows (all versions), and lots of other platforms. See »www.perl.org/ for lots of information on Perl.

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