How about:

Perl is *THE* language.
:) Seriously, though, how about:
Perl is a free and powerful programming language currently used by companies such as amazon.com, MP3.com and deja.com to run their websites. Due to its strong text-processing capabilities, Perl hast become one of the most popular languages for building Internet applications, and has established itself as an integral part web developers', administrators' and system administrators' tools on both unix and windows platforms. Perl is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, minimal, elegant), and features a rich and growing set of third-party modules for almost every imaginable task.
Was that less than 125 words? I didn't count.

--
mowgli

In reply to Re: Perl in 125 words or less by mowgli
in thread Perl in 125 words or less by meetraz

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.