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Perl Development Services at Buy Now Depot

Perl is a programming language that took the world by storm. It was originally conceived as “glueware” for the UNIX environment that would fit somewhere between the command-level scripting offered by the shell and the bit-level programming made possible by using the C programming language. In fact, as early as twenty years ago, Perl was jocosely referred to as the “duct tape that holds the Internet together.” Perl was devised in a manner that encouraged extremely rapid prototyping, astonishing notational convenience, and a surprisingly wide and deep assortment of language and performance optimization techniques.

Perl is of legendary significance to the Web community because it was one of the first tools used to integrate Web services with client requests. When the earliest browsers were introduced in the 1990s, the standard programmatic approach to generating dynamic HTML content was referred to as the Common Gateway Interface (CGI). Perl and the Korn shell were the principal tools that were used to implement dynamic HTML capabilities. While the CGI approach is no longer nearly as important as it once was, Perl had succeeded at establishing itself as an essential building block of the World Wide Web. It was also the essential fourth component in the familiar LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-Perl) and WAMP (Windows-Apache-MySQL-Perl) development stacks, albeit the “P” is nowadays more commonly understood to mean PHP.

Perl rapidly became a best-of-breed programming environment because of the unabashed manner in which it freely borrowed the most ingenious solution strategies from other languages and software tools. It has drawn copiously from C, the Bourne shell, the UNIX editor, and the AWK programming language. Moreover, Perl provides the capability to express arithmetical operations with extreme notational convenience—reminiscent of BASIC—and to directly implement the attributes and property lists that are so important to artificial intelligence (AI) and expert system programming—reminiscent of LISP. Further, Perl provides by far the richest library of text-processing tools based upon a full-featured syntax for specifying patterns, known as Markovian regular expressions. In fact, every other Web framework that offers pattern management paradigms originally adapted—or, frankly, stole—them from the Perl language.

The power of Perl—which was retrofitted with full object-oriented programming capabilities as effortlessly as it was provided with complete template-driven services for automatic programming—makes it the language of choice for a tremendous variety of applications. As a straightforward programming language, it enables Buy Now Depot’s engineers to build a wide variety of system administration and network programming tools, including system utilities, daemons, and even compilers and translators. It also offers support for a wide variety of user interfaces and structured application builders. At the other extreme, the library of community-written Perl subroutines—known as the CPAN archive—is so comprehensive that Perl has emerged as a language of choice for developing best-of-breed websites to attract and retain your paying customers.

Perl has been used by some of the world’s largest software shops to build extraordinarily sophisticated applications and websites that are capable of handling extreme transaction volumes and huge amounts of e-commerce. These include Priceline, Craigslist, Ticketmaster, Slashdot, and IMDb. On the other hand, some of the best-known application and system management environments are written in Perl. Among the best-known of these are cPanel, Bugzilla, Slash, and RT.

Perl development is only one of the technical and marketing specialties that set Buy Now Depot apart from the crowd. Our worldwide team of engineers possesses consummate technical skills in software design, development, and documentation. They not only are expert in applying the latest life-cycle methodologies, but also are cognizant of the most advanced testing and debugging techniques that enable us to deliver verifiably bug-free code that our competitors cannot. Furthermore, Buy Now Depot’s SEM and SEO experts are capable of orchestrating winning marketing campaigns that are guaranteed to drive customers from their desktops and smartphones straight to your shopping carts. Choose Buy Now Depot as your Perl software source and thereby facilitate branding your site as head and shoulders above those who dare to compete against you.