13.5. Emailing and Perl
13.5.1. My first Perl script
Similar to ASP and PHP, Perl is a server language for writing script programs for the World Wide Web. It was developed in the late 1980s by Larry Wall to run initially in a UNIX environment and later adopted in many other operating systems. Perl scripts in this book will have the file extension .pl. This section is not an introduction to the language, but rather a collection of simple Perl program fragments for email applications.
Although Perl is available on PC and Microsoft systems, we will follow the original UNIX design. It’s assumed that you have a general UNIX (or LINUX) environment. With the basic UNIX structure and its naming convention, you should have a directory in which XHTML ...
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