From the early days of the Web, Perl has been the prominent language of CGI development. With the evolution of the Web and its programming requirements, Perl technology has also evolved to address these requirements.

Perl can handle encrypted Web data, including e-commerce transactions. Perl can be embedded into web servers to speed up processing by as much as 2000% to provide better performance than other technologies.

Perl's DBI package makes web-database integration easy. Perl can be used in a wide range of frameworks such as ASP, Mason and mod_perl.

Courses:
Fundamentals of Perl (Beginner)