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| Newer page: | version 12 | Last edited on Friday, March 19, 2004 12:39:47 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 11 | Last edited on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 5:41:21 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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;: [Perl] is most commonly associated with web programming, being the development tool of choice for many people serving dynamic, data driven web pages. Several methods are available for running Perl on the web, such as the ever-popular [CGI] and [mod_perl], the enterprise-class application module. According to Security Space, [mod_perl] is deployed on over 1.6 million [Apache] web servers, a constantly-rising figure that does not include the millions of servers running [Perl] through [CGI].
;: Sites making use of [Perl] include Amazon.com, Wired, Slashdot.org, Alexa and the Internet Wayback machine, a hundred terabyte archive which is five times larger than the the Library of Congress.
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+;A quote from the end of the perl(1) man page: The Perl motto is "There's more than one way to do it." Divining how many more is left as an exercise to the reader.
+;and: The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why.
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