| Perl Scripting |
| As internet usage increased throughout
the 1990s it quickly became apparent that many inadequacies existed
in HTML, the language used for the display of web pages. Put simply,
HTML was not capable of facilitating dynamic webpages that integrate
with databases, taking automated credit card payments, interactive
communty forums, secure members areas etc.
In the early days of dynamic website delivery Perl
was arguably the most popular scriping language used. This should
not come as a surprise since Perl boasts an extremely powerful regular
expression engine making it an excelent tool for text manipulation
- a common task of many web applications.
Today, other technologies such as PHP and ASP.NET have caught up
with Perl and perhaps overtaken Perl in terms of it usage as a web
scripting language. However, Perl is so flexible that it still has
many uses today and remains a tool that LGR (UK) Ltd regularly use,
if not so much for web page delivery certainly for tasks such as
automated backups, report generation, XML parsing and system administration.
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