Searching through dozens of languages, we also noticed that employers are also looking for developers skilled in periphery and more specific languages. This is largely due to the code that developers write, rather than the language itself. And over the last few years, jobs have remained steady, if low. Originally Perl was designed to manipulate text, but has now expanded to network administration, web development and applications. It’s quick to create programs in Perl, so it’s quite common to see it used for prototypes, where a business just needs to prove that the concept works.
It was intended for scientific computations with real numbers and collections of them organized as one- or multidimensional arrays. Its control structures included conditional IF statements, repetitive loops (so-called DO loops), and a GOTO statement that allowed nonsequential execution of program code. FORTRAN made it convenient to have subprograms for common mathematical operations, and built …
