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PerlPerl is the "Swiss Army chainsaw" of programming languages. Fits almost anywhere, extremely well suited to text processing (which has made it the de-facto CGI language), talks to almost anything (I was happy when I was able to talk to COM with it :). One of the best features of Perl is the community built up around it. CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) has a ton of ready to use code. Perl's motto is "There's more than one way to do it" (TMTOWTDI - Pronounced "Tim Toady"). Perl stands for "Practical Extraction and Report Language", but in the spirit of TMTOWDI also stands for "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister". The definitive book on Perl is Programming Perl, also known as the "Camel book" because of the camel on its cover. Originally invented by Larry Wall to help him solve a problem back in 1988, Perl is now helping programmers in the trenches solve their problems every day. I love Perl, and I'm really excited about Perl 6.
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