What are the Applications of Perl Programming?

Perl is one of the most widely used languages over the web. I'm going to list a few of them here −

• Perl used to be the most popular web programming language due to its text manipulation capabilities and rapid development cycle.

• Perl is widely known as "the duct-tape of the Internet".

• Perl can handle encrypted Web data, including e-commerce transactions.

• Perl can be embedded into web servers to speed up processing by as much as 2000%.

• Perl's mod_perl allows the Apache webserver to embed a Perl interpreter.

• Perl's DBI package makes web-database integration easy.