Perl, sometimes referred to as Practical Extraction and Reporting Language,which can be used for a large vairety of task like system adminstration webdevleopoment,network prgramming,GUI development

Perl is an interpreted language not complied language, Thus, the execution of a Perl script tends to use more CPU time than a corresponding C program, for instance. On the other hand, computers tend to get faster and faster, and writing something in Perl instead of C tends to save your time.

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