Features

• Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language.
  
• It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors.
  
• Perl supports both procedural and object-oriented programming.
  
• Perl supports Unicode.
  
• Perl is extensible. There are over 18,000 open source third party modules available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN).
  
• Perl works with HTML, XML, and other mark-up languages.
  
• Perls database integration interface (DBI) supports third-party databases including Oracle, Sybase, Postgres, MySQL and others.
  
• Perl interfaces with external C/C++ libraries through XS or SWIG.
  
• The Perl interpreter can be embedded into other systems.
  
• Perl is Open Source software, licensed under its Artistic License, or the GNU General Public License (GPL)