Perl and the Web

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.

• 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 webserver to embed a Perl interpreter.

• Perl's DBI package makes web-database integration easy.