 | mattg (0) 06/10/2005 | Extremely powerful, for text processing (and UNIX system administration). However, maintenance and sharing of Perl code is difficult. Often described as a write-only language, it's difficult to collaborate with others on Perl without using such restrictive conventions as to do away with many of its benefits over similarly high-level languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, etc.).
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 | caliswimguy (0) 12/28/2004 | Great language but developed upon slowly and overly bloated in use on such things as discussion boards, PHP is generally a better language to use.
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