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Forget everything you ever heard about Perl. If you know C or Java, and don't know Perl, just think of Perl as a very similar language with many built-in tools for text manipulation and data processing.
There. You like Perl better already.
Perl:
has tools that PHP doesn't have (complex data structures).
has tools that allow server-side Perl to run faster than PHP or Java (mod_perl).
has a large library of standard modules (cpan.org) and free CGI scripts.
has all the language features you need to manage large software projects
has a full-featured debugger.
can grow data structures to any size, up to the limit of the system.
runs on just about every platform and every web server.
is used for serious software development by major corporations. Still.
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