Community
Perl developers make up an interactive, vibrant, and eclectic community. This community is firmly anchored by the CPAN repository which provides access to pre-existing code anyone can use. Few other languages provide such a comprehensive set of pre-packaged extensions to the core language. The CPAN model is what other languages are striving to match.
This CPAN repository also encourages modularity. This modularity allows developers to choose specific functionality from shared code. This reduces maintenance requirements overall and allows for a streamlined approach to creating new products and functionality.
In addition to this open model, the Perl community is further strengthened by the various groups that provide documentation and assistance to new developers and the community as a whole. One good example of this aspect of the community are the PerlMonks (
perlmonks.com).
Perl’s community support doesn’t stop online. With the advent of Perl Mongers in the late 1990s, Perl developers are always meeting in person, and exchanging new ideas. Anyone is able to join and learn from other Perl developers in his or her local area. cPanel is proud to be a part of the local Houston Perl Mongers chapter. We regularly host meetings to facilitate information exchanges among our developers, clients, and the Perl community at large.
System Administration
Automation Perl’s parsing abilities and powerful regular expressions engine make it ideal for automating system administration tasks. The language makes it easy for our developers to grab and process data from log files, create and use SQL queries, edit configuration files, and even maintain the Apache web server. This natural prowess makes Perl an easy choice for cPanel.
We won’t be the last to tell you that Perl has its faults, but to that end, there’s not a language out there that does not. However, Perl is not just about the language and its nearly limitless flexibility; it’s about stability, maturity, and most importantly, community. P!
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