Perl programs are easy to write and they are portable to many different platforms. One does not have to know a lot of Perl’s syntax to start programming. Thousands of programmers around the world have found that Perl is one of the best languages currently available for developing complex application programs quickly. It is a very high-level language and even a small Perl program can do tasks that can take hundreds of line of code in other languages. Programs developed in Perl can be tested and modified quickly.
