Why do you program in PERL

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abhijeet

  • Jul 13th, 2007
 

Perl is easy, fast and its fun to code in perl.
Perl is rich with various packages, N/w programming is very easy and there are lot more advantages to say.

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vijay

  • Oct 3rd, 2007
 

Its portable i.e., it can be run Windows / Linux / Solaris and Unix with no changes or with minimum changes.

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desina_dora

  • Oct 11th, 2007
 

Unlike othere programming languages Perl has builting support for regex.
just cut down your peice as fast as you can with regex ( If you are master in regex ).

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It is having the features of scripting (Shell) as well as programming (like C). Using PERL you can easily do the system administration works where comparitively difficult with Shell script.

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* PERL is programmer friendly. It is easy to code and can do it in less number of lines. It does all the nice things with minimum fuzz.

* Text manipulation is unmatched.

* It has built-in regex.

* Has the support of world's largest archive of modules(CPAN)

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