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What is Perl and why do so many people use it for CGI?

April 26, 2017CGI people Perl

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What is Perl and why do so many people use it for CGI?

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The answer is located in the first three lines of the Perl manpage: Perl is an interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. Most CGI applications involve manipulating data in some fashion and accessing external programs and applications. Perl provides easy to use tools that make these tasks a cinch.