Perl Scripting

Find out exactly why Perl will be the go-to scripting language for plenty of programmers.

Perl is a well-liked scripting language which is considered to be one of the most useful languages on the web. It is feature-rich and it's used to set up a number of web-based apps and CGI scripts. What differentiates Perl from most of the other languages on the market is its compatibility with modules - groups of commands for a certain job which can be integrated into a script just by calling them which means that you're able to write only one line inside your script to get a module executed, rather than having the entire program code that is already included in the module anyway. Because Perl supports various other programming languages and it comes with a lot of options based on what a given app can do, it is employed by a number of popular companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, and many others.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you want to include CGI scripts on your websites or any other Perl-based application for that matter, you won't encounter any sort of problems in the event that you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company. Thousands of Perl modules are set up on our machines and you're able to call each of them by including the path which you can find in your Control Panel into the script that you've selected. Any time you download some application from a third-party website, for instance, you can be sure that you'll be able to work with it no matter what modules it needs to function. As long as your .pl files include the proper UNIX permissions to be executable, you can choose whether a certain script will be run manually by a visitor doing something on your site, or automatically by setting up a cron job in your account. Using the latter option, your script can be executed every day, hour or minute in accordance with your preference.