What is Perl?

Perl stands for 'Practical Extraction and Reporting Language'. Perl is a versatile programming language with a wide variety of uses. For the purposes of this knowledge base, we refer to Perl most often in the context of CGI scripts and web programs that can be written in Perl.

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