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Perl which stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language, is an interpreted
high-level programming language developed by Larry Wall. Its an Open Source software, licensed under the GNU General
Public License (GPL) with the best features from other languages, such as C, awk, sed, sh,and BASIC among others, and perl
supports unicode.
CGI (common Gateway Interface) allows to use a program behind the scenes to perform tasks that cannot be done
through HTML, for this Perl is one of the most preferred language. For all this flexibility and ease of use,
CGI Perl programming is used along with HTML, PHP and CSS very commonly.
Index of Perl Tutorial
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