Writing Popular Perl Software

Recently https://perl.com published a list of top keywords for their googsearch:

https://github.com/tpf/perldotcom/projects

Having this information is like asking a sentient billion human brain AI the question, "perl"?

The answer was nine nouns in precedential order:

  $ perl? 
  $ sql linux python mysql cgi regex foreach cpan download
  $ _

[download]

The world needs Perl to:

  1. Interact with SQL databases.
  2. Work with Linux.
  3. Do something (with, about, for, etc) Python.
  4. Interact with MySQL databases.
  5. Provide the Common Gateway Interface.
  6. Match regular expressions.
  7. Process each item in a list.
  8. Expand through modules.
  9. Download!

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_data_centers#Production_hardware

"As of 2014, Google used a heavily customized version of Debian (GNU/Linux). They migrated from a Red Hat-based system incrementally in 2013."

From https://wiki.debian.org/Perl

"Perl is just another high level programming language that supports object-oriented, procedural and/or functional programming.

Lot of Debian and GNU tools, use Perl. Lot of system core components, packaging internals and other critical points, rely on Perl versions.

If you've some unmet requirements about the Perl interpreter version, TIMTOWTDI

(There Is More Than One Way To Do It)

2018-10-20 Athanasius removed code tags, added paragraph tags, linkified links, etc.

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