Perl

After over 20 years of development, Perl is one of the most mature and secure programming languages around.

Features:

• Integrates numerous features from many other programming languages (C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC)
• A database interface (known as DBI)
• Works with HTML, XML, and other mark-up languages
• Supports Unicode
• Y2K compliant
• Procedural and object-oriented programming (POP and OOP)
• Interfaces with external C/C++ libraries through XS or SWIG
• Extensible via modules (via CPAN)
• The Perl interpreter can be embedded into other systems
• Comes with a CGI.pm module
• Can handle encrypted Web data
• Secure enough to be used with e-commerce transactions
• Speed oriented
• A mod_perl to be used with the Apache web server