Why do you program in Perl?

Answer Posted / rajganesh

Perl is a general purpose, high level, interpreter, dynamic
and open souce programming language. It's a powerful text
processing software and also used in system administration,
web developement, network programming language etc. We can
use it in both linux/unix and Windows environment also.

Hope this should be enough to the reason for programming in
PERL.

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