About Perl What is Perl?

• PERL stands for "Practical Extraction and Report Language"
• Perl is a language optimized for 
  • scanning arbitrary text files
  • extracting information from those text files, and
  • printing reports based on that information. 
• It's also a good language for many system management tasks. 
• Perl combines (in the author's opinion, anyway) some of the
  best features of C, sed, awk, and sh
• Provides a portable computing model across diverse architectures
• It is "A Perl of Very Little Price" (free!)