.PL File

File extension pl is associated with Perl, a stable, cross platform programming language. It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors and is widely used to program web applications of all needs.

The pl extension is rare on the web, because Perl scripts are usually served as cgi. Perl is popular enough that there are a few out there, though. Although Perl won't let you insert code into static HTML pages, it does have a library specifically for generating web pages.

Using the Perl CGI library, you can generate all the parts of each web page using a specialized function; a command to generate the tag  etc. So, you don't have to use "print" to generate every single line of code, which must be handy.

MIME types:
text/x-script.perl
text/plain

Files with pl extension can be found source codes or scripts written in Perl script programming language.

How to open:

You can view and edit *.pl files in any text editor.

How to convert:

There is no way how to convert *.pl files to other formats, unless some kind of parser for Perl files exists.