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Perl is a high-level programming language with an eclectic heritage
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written by Larry Wall and a cast of thousands. It derives from the
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ubiquitous C programming language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk,
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the Unix shell, and at least a dozen other tools and languages. Perl's
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process, file, and text manipulation facilities make it particularly
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well-suited for tasks involving quick prototyping, system utilities,
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software tools, system management tasks, database access, graphical
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programming, networking, and world wide web programming. These strengths
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make it especially popular with system administrators and CGI script
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authors, but mathematicians, geneticists, journalists, and even managers
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also use Perl. Maybe you should, too.
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