Web Server Scripts

Web servers generate huge amounts of HTML. The M stands for Markup, and you need lots of it to make your Web pages look more exciting than the average
insurance contract. It's an awkward business though, with problems arising easily if tags are misplaced or misspelled. Perl is a good choice of language to look
after the details for you while you get on with the big picture. This is especially true if you call on Perl 5's object-oriented capabilities.

Another facet of Perl that is of particular interest to many Web server managers is that Perl works very well with standard UNIX DBM files and support for
proprietary databases is growing. This is a significant consideration if you plan to allow users to query database material over the Web.