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Pros
Pro Very fast excecution time
usually 5 times faster than Python and 10 times TCL
Pro Tons of modules (CPAN)
Pro Native and powerful regex engine
Pro Powerful string matching abilities
Pro Large community (forums, irc)
Pro Cross-platform
Pro Interface to all of POSIX routines
Cons
Con Executable line noise
Con Too much syntactic sugars
Con Hard to decipher
Con TMTOWTDI (There's more than one way to do it)
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