WHY TO LEARN PERL

Minimal reasons to learn PerlVisit: http://www.aliencoders.comCredit: perl.org

Why Perl

Who uses it

For whom it’s best suited

Why to support Perl

Job Opportunities

Books

Further References

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Why Perl Powerful, Expressive and fast

Perl runs basic CGI that made CGI ubiquitous on the web.

mod_perl is an advanced implementation of Perl It

provides extremely fast performance

DB interaction: Perl provides an excellent interface to nearly all available databases

re-usable code architecture (modules, OO, etc.): Perl is architected to allow and encourage re-use.

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Why Perl cont.. CPAN, Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is

one of the largest repositories of free code in the world. No need to reinvent the wheel .

Multi-use: Perl can be used to develop Web apps, batch processing, data analysis and text manipulation, command-line utilities and apps, GUI apps.

Multi-language integration: can interact with C, C++, Java, etc. from within Perl code.

Multi-platform: Perl runs on Linux, MS Windows and all of the platforms listed here: http://www.cpan.org/ports/

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Who uses it

Google EBay Ticketmaster Bank of America Yahoo Amazon Indian Railways IMDB Live Journal BBC.. and list goes on

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For whom it’s best suited

Web Development Network Programming Unix People Lazy but crazy Needs Text manipulation Needs Different database interaction Uses lots of regular expression – it’s

the best friend

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Why to support Perl

Perl, Apache, and related technologies are open source and free

You can look in and modify perl files Very strong community support:

CPAN Easy to Learn Easy to maintain Under top 10 best programming

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Job Opportunities

Most of the jobs are based on US UK, Canada people also have nice

opportunity Australia is quite famous for Perl

jobs and training Very less jobs in India Salary Range is quite handsome http://jobs.perl.org/about/stats

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Books Programming Perl By Larry Wall Modern Perl by chromatic Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl,

Mastering Perl by Randal L. Schwartz

Object Oriented Perl by Damian Conway

Perl Best Practices by Damian Conway

Higher Order Perl by Mark Jason Dominus

Minimal Perl for Linux and Unix people by Tim Maher

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Further References

http://perltraining.com.au/whyperl.html

http://perldoc.perl.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl http://www.cpan.org/ http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.perl.org/ http://perlguru.com/

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