Perl is one of the oldest web programming languages, in fact it began well before the World Wide Web was even conceived. Perticularly good at data and string manipulation, it has become the most popular of web programming languages mainly because of the number of hosts that support it - nearly every host service has Perl capability.

Often the terms Perl and CGI are used to describe the same thing. They often are, but to be precise CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface - a system for adding interactive elements to web sites. CGI programs are normally (but not always) written in Perl, which itself has been described as the "duct tape" of the internet!

We have been using Perl since 1998, so we have a good understanding of its strengths and limitations.

And if you don't need us to create programs for you, there are many sites listing free Perl scripts which we can install and set up for you. Sometimes we can modify these too (depending on licence conditions).

Check out the projects area for web programming projects we have completed, including some in Perl.