Minimal reason to learn Perl

Why to Learn Perl
Minimal reasons to learn Perl
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Why PerlWho uses itFor whom it’s best suitedWhy to support Perl Job Opportunities BooksFurther References
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Why Perl
Powerful, Expressive and fast
Perl runs basic CGI that made CGI ubiquitous on the web.
mod_perl is an advanced implementation of Perl It provides extremely fast performance
DB interaction: Perl provides an excellent interface to nearly all available databases
re-usable code architecture (modules, OO, etc.): Perl is architected to allow and encourage re-use.
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Why Perl cont..
CPAN, Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is one of the largest repositories of free code in the world. No need to reinvent the wheel .
Multi-use: Perl can be used to develop Web apps, batch processing, data analysis and text manipulation, command-line utilities and apps, GUI apps.
Multi-language integration: can interact with C, C++, Java, etc. from within Perl code.
Multi-platform: Perl runs on Linux, MS Windows and all of the platforms listed here: http://www.cpan.org/ports/
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Who uses it
Google
EBay
Ticketmaster
Bank of America
Yahoo
Amazon
Indian Railways
IMDB
Live Journal
BBC
.. and list goes on
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For whom it’s best suited
Web Development
Network Programming
Unix People
Lazy but crazy
Needs Text manipulation
Needs Different database interaction
Uses lots of regular expression – it’s the best friend
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Why to support Perl
Perl, Apache, and related technologies are open source and free
You can look in and modify perl files
Very strong community support: CPAN
Easy to Learn
Easy to maintain
Under top 10 best programming languages since last 16 years
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Job Opportunities
Most of the jobs are based on US
UK, Canada people also have nice opportunity
Australia is quite famous for Perl jobs and training
Very less jobs in India
Salary Range is quite handsome
http://jobs.perl.org/about/stats
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Books
Programming Perl By Larry Wall
Modern Perl by chromatic
Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl, Mastering Perl by Randal L. Schwartz
Object Oriented Perl by Damian Conway
Perl Best Practices by Damian Conway
Higher Order Perl by Mark Jason Dominus
Minimal Perl for Linux and Unix people by Tim Maher
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Further References
http://perltraining.com.au/whyperl.html
http://perldoc.perl.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl
http://www.cpan.org/
http://www.perlmonks.org/
http://www.perl.org/
http://perlguru.com/
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