What are some practical applications for Perl?

[David A. Sinck]

\_ SMTP quoth Victor Odhner on 5/21/2002 14:32 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ Mark Berkwitt wrote:
\_ > I'm considering learning Perl but I don't know what
\_ > Perl will give me.
\_ 
\_ Perl has proven a great language for CGIs, that is,
\_ external programs called by a web server to service
\_ web requests.  That's the good news.  The bad news is
\_ that in-process services such as PHP are more efficient
\_ and will be replacing Perl over coming years.

Um, mod_perl, anyone?  

And as to PHP:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.leak.php


Now there's an important feature in the *core* of any language.

David