PERL stands for practical extension and Report language. It is one if the most widely usednlanguages for web programming today. PERL is commonly used because of its power, its flexiility and availability of preexisting scripts. It has powerful, text processing capabilitiesn and is arguably the most popular CGI scripting language.
Example program to print a line of text.
#!c:\.perl\bin\per1
#A first program in perl
print(”welcome to perl! \n”);
Thus program output is welcome to perl!
Here in the program #-> comment charactert to instruct the interpreter to ignore everything on the current line following #.
The file can be saved with extension .PL in the directory cgi.bin.
