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Uses of perl

Perl

9th Sep 2019, 5:03 PM

Aditya Srivastava

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In addition to CGI, Perl 5 is used for system administration, network programming, finance, bioinformatics, and other applications, such as for GUIs. It has been nicknamed "the Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages" because of its flexibility and power, and also its ugliness.😂

9th Sep 2019, 5:09 PM

Jella

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These days, Python does anything that Perl was able to do.

10th Sep 2019, 3:14 AM

Sonic

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Perl5 comes preinstalled on most unix like os and very useful for system admin task. For eg. ubuntu, centos, openbsd, debian. It is very handy for sysadmin and power user.

5th Oct 2019, 10:05 AM

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