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What is Perl explained in our web authoring FAQ
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Perl is a popular scripting language used to write CGI scripts for web servers as well as to write scripts for other purposes. The advantage of using Perl scripts is that Perl is available both for Unix hosting as well as for Windows Hosting. There are many ready made scripts available for free ar at a low cost. If you are new to web server scripting you are probably better of learning either PHP or ASP if you want to create dynamic web pages yourself.
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