Well Perl isn’t (just) a web language. And this article does a pretty good job explaining what it is. Which is a powerful, lightweight general purpose program

Well Perl isn’t (just) a web language. And this article does a pretty good job explaining what it is. Which is a powerful, lightweight general purpose programming language. CPAN alone is worth the price of admission. I started my career using Perl to build Excel spreadsheets from queries I ran against Oracle DB. That may sound horrible but it was actually plug and play. Really simple and just worked. I could even fire off emails from the script. Just zero hurdles (or guard rails).