Common useful applictions of Perl? (10)

3 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2012-01-07 21:54 ID:l/weRgnQ

Perl was invented to replace awk and sed for shell scripts that parse the output of other shell scripts, so that's what it's best for. Eventually it became used for CGI, but it wasn't great for that, and was replaced with PHP which is sort of like Perl for the web with built in features like templates and SQL queries. Nowadays, Java, Python and Ruby have web frameworks which are replacing PHP. Perl is still useful for shell scripting but it being replaced by Python as the de-facto all-purpose scripting language.

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