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CGI Scripts with Perl

Perl is a computer language. It is very good for CGI scripts for several reasons.

Perl is freely available on almost any computer system
Perl is very forgiving and it easy to get a program going quickly
Perl interacts well with the rest of the operating system

The main drawbacks of Perl is that it is so forgiving and unstructured, it is easy to write unintelligible programs, and it is slower than a compiled language.

The Whirlwind Tour

Basics
Variables
Program Control
Pattern Matching
Subroutines
File I/O
System Calls
Perl Peculiarities

For more information

Programming Perl, by Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz, O'Reilly & Associates, 1991.
Learning Perl, by Randal Schwartz, O'Reilly & Associates, 1991.
The Perl man page
An online tutorial

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