Monday, September 27, 2010

Advantages of Perl over Shell?

1) Perl is platform independent - Perl runs on all platforms and is far more portable. Can be used on Unix as well as windows platform.

2) Perl provides most advanced regular expressions which is used for text processing which made it very popular language for text processing. The name itself indicated this "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language" - so extensively used for pattern extraction and reporting.

3) Perl Provides :
     a) Modularization (i.e Packages)
     b) Object Oriented Techniques.
     c) Good memory management, efficiently implemented data structures like lists and hashes.

4) Better Performance compared to Shell while processing huge files.

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