Tutorial 1 : Introduction of Perl

Perl is powerful language which is able to be supported by different kind of operating system. It is a high level and general-purpose programming language. Now, it is widely used in various tasks such as web development, system administration, Graphical User Interface (GUI) development, network & security programming.

Figure 1.1: Logo of Programming Republic of Perl.

Benefits of Perl Language

•  Perl is an Open Source language which is licensed under General Public
   Licence (GPL).
•  Perl also is a powerful, stable and cross platform programming language
   which able to support different kind of Operating System (OS) such as
   Unix, Window or Mac.
•  Perl able to borrow the features from other languages, e.g. C, AWK,
   Shell,  BASIC and others.
•  Perl language also supports Unicode.
•  Perl is extensible language. It able to support over 20,000 third party
   modules which are available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive
   Network (CPAN).
•  Perl able to be work with other mark-up languages, e.g. HTML, PHP,
   XML and so on. It aslo commonly used to support for the database
   integration interface such as MySQL, Oracle and others.

Let's us start to study the Perl Language and see what things can be done by it. If you have the basic of the other programming language, it is easier for you to catch up.