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    Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation. It can be used for a wide range of tasks including web development, system administration, network programming, and GUI development. Some key features of Perl include its ability to interface with databases, HTML, XML, and other markup languages. It also supports object-oriented and procedural programming. Perl is an interpreted language that is widely used for web development and system administration due to its text manipulation capabilities and rapid development cycle. It remains a popular language for gluing together and making sense of data from many different sources.

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    Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation. It can be used for a wide range of tasks including web development, system administration, network programming, and GUI development. Some key features of Perl include its ability to interface with databases, HTML, XML, and other markup languages. It also supports object-oriented and procedural programming. Perl is an interpreted language that is widely used for web development and system administration due to its text manipulation capabilities and rapid development cycle. It remains a popular language for gluing together and making sense of data from many different sources.

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    Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation. It can be used for a wide range of tasks including web development, system administration, network programming, and GUI development. Some key features of Perl include its ability to interface with databases, HTML, XML, and other markup languages. It also supports object-oriented and procedural programming. Perl is an interpreted language that is widely used for web development and system administration due to its text manipulation capabilities and rapid development cycle. It remains a popular language for gluing together and making sense of data from many different sources.

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    PERL

    INTRODUCTION
    Lecture 1
    Agenda
    • PERL def.
    • What is Perl?
    • Perl Features
    • Perl and the Web
    • Perl is Interpreted
    PERL
    • Perl is a general-purpose
    programming language originally
    developed for text manipulation and
    now used for a wide range of tasks
    including system administration, web
    development, network
    programming, GUI development, and
    more.
    What is Perl?
     Perl is a stable, cross platform programming
    language.
     Though Perl is not officially an acronym but
    few people used it as Practical Extraction
    and Report Language.
     It is used for mission critical projects in the
    public and private sectors.
     Perl is an Open Source software, licensed
    under its Artistic License, or the GNU General
    Public License (GPL).
    What is Perl?
     Perl was created by Larry Wall.
     Perl 1.0 was released to usenet's
    alt.comp.sources in 1987.
     At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest
    version of perl was 5.16.2.
     Perl is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary.
    •PC Magazine announced Perl as the finalist for
    its 1998 Technical Excellence Award in the
    Development Tool category.
    Perl Features
     Perl takes the best features from other
    languages, such as C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC,
    among others.
     Perls database integration interface DBI supports
    third-party databases including Oracle, Sybase,
    Postgres, MySQL and others.
     Perl works with HTML, XML, and other mark-up
    languages.
     Perl supports Unicode.
     Perl is Y2K compliant.
    Perl Features
     Perl supports both procedural and object-
    oriented programming.
     Perl interfaces with external C/C++ libraries
    through XS or SWIG.
     Perl is extensible. There are over 20,000 third
    party modules available from the
    Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN).
     The Perl interpreter can be embedded into
    other systems.
    Perl and the Web
     Perl used to be the most popular web programming
    language due to its text manipulation capabilities and
    rapid development cycle.
     Perl is widely known as " the duct-tape of the Internet".
     Perl can handle encrypted Web data, including e-commerce
    transactions.
     Perl can be embedded into web servers to speed up
    processing by as much as 2000%.
     Perl's mod_perl allows the Apache web server to embed a
    Perl interpreter.
     Perl's DBI package makes web-database integration easy.
    Perl is Interpreted
    •Perl is an interpreted language, which means that
    your code can be run as is, without a compilation
    stage that creates a non portable executable program.

    •Traditional compilers convert programs into machine


    language. When you run a Perl program, it's first
    compiled into a byte code, which is then converted ( as
    the program runs) into machine instructions. So it is
    not quite the same as shells, or Tcl, which are strictly
    interpreted without an intermediate representation.
    Perl is Interpreted
    •It is also not like most versions of C
    or C++, which are compiled directly
    into a machine dependent format. It
    is somewhere in between, along with
    Python and awk and Emacs .elc files.
    THANKS

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