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    What are the Features of Perl Language?



    Perl is a programming language developed by Larry Wall, specially designed for text processing. There are following great feature of Perl Language

    • Perl takes the best features from other languages, such as C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC, among others.

    • Perl's database integration interface DBI supports third-party databases including Oracle, Sybase, Postgres, MySQL, and others.

    • Perl works with HTML, XML, and other mark-up languages.

    • Perl supports Unicode.

    • Perl is Y2K compliant.

    • Perl supports both procedural and object-oriented programming.

    • Perl interfaces with external C/C++ libraries through XS or SWIG.

    • Perl is extensible. There are over 20,000 third party modules available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN).

    • The Perl interpreter can be embedded into other systems.

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