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Perl is one of the most important and widely used scripting languages in use today. It is the first choice for thousands of professional web developers, an increasingly popular choice for application programming and ideal for a wide variety of tasks (including, but not limited to, system management tasks, rapid prototyping, rapid application development (RAD), text searching and manipulation, data mining and test utilities).
Perl has the following properties/characteristics: It is open source, freely available on the majority of platforms (including ALL major platforms), portable, powerful, versatile, robust and easy to use. It has optional OO features and is optionally compilable (via third-part compilers). Finally, it is supported by a vast library - a comprehensive standard library and hundreds of third-party libraries.