PERL was developed by Larry Wall (author of the USENET newsreader rn). Wall developed PERL originally as a data reduction language (that is, a language that is capable of consuming large quantities of data in an efficient manner and performing some function(s) on it).
PERL is an acronym for "Practical Extraction and Report Language." PERL is almost the perfect tool for system administrators since it allows the easy manipulation of files, process information, and many other items. PERL is also great for people who write cgi-bin scripts to process web forms because it has so many useful string manipulation functions.
Since PERL's syntax resembles shell programs and C and it has the builtin functions of awk, sed, and grep, many people find it very easy to learn. One thing to always remember about PERL...."There's always more than one way to do it." Five PERL programmers may write a simple piece of code to perform and function and they may each take five different approaches to accomplish the task.
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