The Perl parser will be needed by the files in charge of talking to the internet and the database. It should be able to connect to the update server and download the update log, then apply the updates to the database accordingly.

So far we found [http://perldoc.perl.org/perlembed.html perlembed]. It allows us to use Perl from C, which means that we could compile our program with headers that will be able to alternate between Windows, Linux, and Mac.

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