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Perl is a high-level programming language originally written
by Larry Wall with diverse contributions from thousands of
other individuals. It is mainly derived from the C programming
language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk, the UNIX shell,
and more than a dozen other utilities and languages.
Perl offers process, file, and text manipulation
facilities making it particularly well suited for tasks involving
quick prototyping, system utilities, software tools, system
management tasks, database access, graphical programming,
networking, and World Wide Web programming. These strengths
make it especially popular with system administrators and
CGI script authors, yet mathematicians, geneticists, journalists,
and managers benefit from the power of Perl.
Mac OS X includes Perl, however to enable some functionality
of our OpenDB product, we have included a more recent stable
version than that ships with Mac OS 10.2.x.
We have built mod_perl support into Apache, enabling a persistent
Perl interpreter embedded in your web server. This avoids
the overhead of starting an external interpreter and alleviates
the penalty of Perl start-up time, benefiting super-fast dynamic
content.
Be
sure to check out our Perl book bundle. Perl in a Nutshell
is a complete, concise and to-the-point guide to Perl filled
with working samples. It is an excellent addition for experienced
Perl users and beginners alike.
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