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Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages: Perl 5 and Perl 6 (now known as Raku). Perl 5, the more widely used version, is known for its powerful text processing abilities and its role in the early days of web development. It borrows features from other programming languages including C, shell scripting, AWK, and sed. Perl's flexibility and expressiveness, captured in the phrase "There's more than one way to do it," make it popular for system administration, network programming, and web development. While its usage has declined in recent years, Perl remains valuable for its text manipulation capabilities and continues to be used in legacy systems and for specific tasks like log parsing and data extraction.
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1websites
use it — 0% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months
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tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 30)
0.06% of all websites we track run Perl
Similar tools in its category
Programming languages: 30 tools known, 9 seen in our scans
Questions about Perl
- How many websites use Perl?
- We found Perl on 1 of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (0%).
- What are the alternatives to Perl?
- Other programming languages tools we recognize include PHP, Node.js, Java, Python.
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