Perl
Pragmatic text-processing language with powerful regex support — once the dominant language for CGI web programming and system administration.
dynamic
interpreted
since 1987
scriptingimperativefunctionaloop
Perl’s “there’s more than one way to do it” philosophy and unmatched regular expression integration made it the dominant glue language of the early web. It remains heavily used in bioinformatics (BioPerl), legacy systems administration, and anywhere dense text transformation is required. CPAN, Perl’s package repository, contains over 200,000 modules.