Why Use Perl?
Availability
- Perl is portable, in part, due to its widespread availability
- Platform support
- Sun, SGI, DEC, HP, IBM
- IBM-PC, Macintosh
- Cray, SP2 !
- and soon, the iButton ring!
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- Comes with source code
- sh, csh, and ksh are not as available (eg: PC, Mac)
