Why I Like Perl

Highly Portable

Perl runs on an insane number of platforms
- All modern Unixes
- Windows
- VMS
- PlayStation 2
- just about anywhere C runs
Portable File IO library PerlIO introduced in 5.8
Threading model not tied to platform (experimental in 5.8)
Emulates tricky bits like fork() on Windows
Libraries and docs to ease porting
- File::Spec
- perlport
- Test::More
- regular smoketesting

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