Why do you program in Perl?
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Answer / selvaraju
It is having the features of scripting(shell) as well as
programming(like c). Using perl u can easily do the system
administration works where comparitively difficult with
shell script.
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Answer / rajganesh
Perl is a general purpose, high level, interpreter, dynamic
and open souce programming language. It's a powerful text
processing software and also used in system administration,
web developement, network programming language etc. We can
use it in both linux/unix and Windows environment also.
Hope this should be enough to the reason for programming in
PERL.
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Answer / uma
YES I AGREE WITH RAJGANESH ANSWER , PERL IS SUCH A
WONDERFUL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE BECOZ IT IS A POWERFUL TEXT
PROCESSR , EASILY EXTRACT DATA EVEN IF THE TEXT DOC IS VERY
VERY LARGE...TEXT MANIPULATION IS VERY EASY , IT IS A
LANGUAGE , WHICH SYNTAX , SCOPE , READIBILITY IS VERY GOOD.
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Answer / mastan
because perl is high level language and it is portable and it is free and it is human oriented sysntax.
because of these we program inperl
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