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  1. Jun 10th, 2001, 09:47 AM #1
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    Question Strengths & Weaknesses of Perl

    What are the capabilities, strengths and weaknesses of Perl?
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  2. Jun 10th, 2001, 10:22 AM #2
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    See www.perl.org for information on those.

    Perl's biggest strength is text processing
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  3. Jun 10th, 2001, 11:35 AM #3
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    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.
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    Ooops....no....it's Practical Extraction and Report Language
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