Perl Scripting
Perl is one of the most popular programming languages nowadays. Why do millions of developers work with it?
Perl is a sought-after scripting language that is regarded as being one of the most useful programming languages in the online world. It's feature-rich and it's used to generate a number of web-based apps and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the alternative languages on the market is its support for modules - sets of commands for a specific task that can be integrated into a script just by calling them i.e. you'll be able to write just a single line inside your script to get an entire module executed, instead of having the entire code which is already a part of the module anyway. Since Perl is compatible with numerous other programming languages and it provides a lot of functions depending on what a particular application can do, it is used by lots of famous companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, and so on.
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Perl Scripting in Hosting
Perl is provided with all of the
Linux hosting packages that we offer and you can execute any kind of .pl file which you upload in your account when you use the File Manager of the Control Panel or some FTP software. The latter will allow you to create a website with all the characteristics that you would like your visitors to have, but PHP cannot supply. You will be able to execute a script either manually or automatically using a cron job. Our packages come with thousands of Perl modules that you can use and you will see a full list in your web hosting account along with the path that you should use in your scripts, to be able to access these modules. If you want to execute a Perl/CGI script with a cron job but your plan doesn't offer this option, you'll be able to add as many cron jobs as you need from the Add Upgrades/Services link on the left-hand side of the web hosting Control Panel.