Perl Perl is a "Practical Extraction and Report Language" freely available for Unix, MVS, VMS, MS/DOS, Macintosh, OS/2, Amiga, and other operating systems. Perl has powerful text-manipulation functions. It eclectically combines features and purposes of many command languages. Perl had enjoyed early popularity for programming web forms and a gateway between systems, databases, and users. PHP is often used instead of Perl nowadays. |