Hi Ben,
The PERL version will probably be displayed on your host's website where they describe the different packages. Are you using CPanel as your website control panel by any chance? If so it may be possible to install PERL modules through the UI.
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Honestly i never would have even considered PERL. I never see it in use anywhere.
Is there some reason why you'd use PERL over something like PHP which is installed pretty much as standard on every webserver i've ever seen, has a huge range of free scripts and great documentation, including xml support, is a very very easy language to learn and (in my experience) has a much wider user base online that can help with it.
If you already know PERL and not PHP, then fine. Just wondering if PERL has any actual advantages in this situation.
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I would suggest reading the following article:
Experiences of Using PHP in Large Websites
One major advantage of PERL is the fact that it is highly exstensible, after all there is more than one way to skin a cat; if you ever need to program anything complex the chances are that somebody has created a module to do what you need to do and somebody else has created a wrapper class to expose the functionality in a way that suits their programming style or to simplify it's use. To put a long story short, you have a lot of choice with PERL.
Regards
Carl