What are the capabilities, strengths and weaknesses of Perl?
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What are the capabilities, strengths and weaknesses of Perl?
See www.perl.org for information on those.
Perl's biggest strength is text processing ;)
well part of it stands for Extraction and Reporting so i'd imagine just that - reading/gathering data, processing and outputting that data (be it files or on screen in a web browser).
Also the fact it's used for CGI scripting means it is a very useful language to know.
Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister :p
Ooops....no....it's Practical Extraction and Report Language :)