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Pro Easily glues together software written in other languages
Perl features make it disturbingly easy to create interoperability between other apps written in completely different languages. This language is still the glue between thousands of apps across the globe that otherwise weren't designed to work together.
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Perl
Recommended 6 years ago
Extremely easy to learn and offers new programmers the ability to do big things with little knowledge. There are hundreds of books on this language in any of your favorite book stores. It also has CPAN which is the largest library of modules available to any true scripting language. This language will likely...
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Large community (forums, irc)Pro
Very fast execution timePro
Tons of modules (CPAN)Pro
Cross-platformPro
Extremely flexiblePro
Interface to all of POSIX routinesPro
Very fast execution timePro
Native and powerful regex enginePro
Powerful string matching abilitiesPro
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Pro Very fast execution time
Usually 5 times faster than Python and 10 times TCL (which doesn't mean a lot, because both are probably the worst languages ever).