The document discusses why Perl is a useful programming language to learn, noting that it is powerful, expressive, fast, supports database interaction and reusable code modules. It is used by many large companies and is well-suited for web development, network programming, text manipulation and more. Learning Perl provides opportunities for open source contribution and jobs, especially in the US, UK, Australia and Canada.

1. Why to Learn Perl Minimal reasons to learn Perl Visit: http://www.aliencoders.com Credit: perl.org

2. Why PerlWho uses itFor whom it’s best suitedWhy to support Perl Job Opportunities BooksFurther References 2 Like us at https://www.facebook.com/aliencoders

3. 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. 3 Like us at https://www.facebook.com/aliencoders

4. 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/ 4 Like us at https://www.facebook.com/aliencoders

5. Who uses it Google EBay Ticketmaster Bank of America Yahoo Amazon Indian Railways IMDB Live Journal BBC .. and list goes on 5 Like us at https://www.facebook.com/aliencoders

6. 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 6 Like us at https://www.facebook.com/aliencoders

7. 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 7 Like us at https://www.facebook.com/aliencoders

8. 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 8 Like us at https://www.facebook.com/aliencoders

9. 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 9 Like us at https://www.facebook.com/aliencoders

10. 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/ 10 Like us at https://www.facebook.com/aliencoders