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Old 07-03-2002, 09:37 AM  
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Perl was initially used because as a language built for text parsing, it was perfect for the net.

Basically it was here first because it fit the needs of the early internet best. Time's have changed. Perl is being overtaken by php because it's easier to use and it is faster in most cases.
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