What Is Perl?
Perl is a programming language. It was originally designed to make it easier to extract data and generate reports. Over the years, Perl has been considerably developed and enlarged, but it retains its powerful text manipulation capabilities. Perl has come to be widely used in an Internet environment for the simple reason that many Internet tasks require the processing of text: verifying and analyzing input, communicating with other systems, and generating textual output.
Well suited to use in an Internet environment, Perl is most often used to write CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts for Web servers. Nevertheless, you can use Perl to write standalone programs for a wide range of applications.
CGI is a protocol that, combined ...
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