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Perl's strong points

• more 'natural' than most languages
  discriminate between

  singular and plural

  verbs and nouns

• shallow (but long) learning curve

• Open Source© = free
  ports to Amiga, AS400, Atari, BeOS, LynxOS, Mac, MPE, MSDOS, MVS, Netware, OS2, Plan9, RiscOS, SCO, VMS, Win3.1, Win95/98, WinNT

  Perl Usage Survey		respondents: 4963
  (source: www.perl.org)
  Linux	3153	HP-UX	765
  Solaris	2362	Free/Net/OpenBSD	675
  Win95/98/NT	2189	IRIX	610
  MacOS	1264	AIX	538
  SunOS	1257	DEC Unix, OSF/1	447

  
  
  

• pod (plain old documentation)
  embedded in scripts

  pod2man, pod2latex, pod2html, ...

Perl philosophy

• easy things should be easy, hard things should be possible

• TIMTOWTDI (There Is More Than One Way To Do It)

• if you think something can't be done, think again, because it usually can

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