{"id":2091,"date":"2012-06-04T16:43:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T16:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftydba.com\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2024-02-17T14:29:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T14:29:21","slug":"why-use-perl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/?p=2091","title":{"rendered":"Why use PERL?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPERL<\/a> was originally written by Larry Wall while he was working at NASA’s jet prepulsion laboratories. It’s syntax is a combination of many different languages. While PERL is not a acryonymn, one of Larry’s favorites is ‘Pratical Extraction and Reporting Language’. The first version of PERL was release in December, 1987.<\/p>\n

Getting to the main question, ‘Why use PERL?’. Here are a few reasons why people use the language.<\/p>\n

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  1. It’s free! The PERL language can be installed on any UNIX box for free. The community version of Active State<\/a> Perl for Windows is free.<\/li>\n
  2. It’s platform independent<\/a>. A utility written in Windows can be run on UNIX with little or no changes.<\/li>\n
  3. It’s a high level language<\/a>. You do not have to work about low level stuff such as memory, addresses, etc.<\/li>\n
  4. It has a large user group<\/a> following. There is a large user group that is continuously extending the language through modules. These modules can be used to solve day-to-day technical problems that a developer come accross.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I like to use PERL because it is portable between operating systems and has a large number of free modules. I will be using Active State PERL version 5.12.3 to interpret my coding examples. I will try to leverage the PERL modules to solve common data mining problems.<\/p>\n

    The key points to remember from this article is that PERL is free, portable, and extendable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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