The Perl programming language was first posted to the comp.sources.misc Usenet newsgroup by its creator Larry Wall on December 18, 1987. Now known as a family of high-level, general-purpose, ...

To be clear, the Perl programming language's official website, perl.org, remains secure and intact. Perl.com, unfortunately, is also used as a mirror or backup for distributing modules via CPAN.

1987: The first version of the Perl programming language is released. Perl was the brainchild of Larry Wall, a programmer at Unisys, who borrowed from existing languages, especially C, to create a ...

Hard to believe, but the 'Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages' and high-class glue holding the Internet together is 25 years young today.

Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.” But at least you can tell it was made by humans.

Programming The Network With Perl is quite different from other Perl books I have read. Many are written as reference books, whereas this one is written more like a textbook, with exercises at the end ...

Perl creator Larry Wall promised version 6 of Perl will be the first truly extensible programming language during his annual "State of the Onion" speech at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), ...

Perl was a revolution in a way. and most of its productivity boost was due to the introduction of a full programming language with light notation for regular expressions, arrays and especially hashes.

Feel free to light 25 candles today for “the duct tape of the Internet,” or if you prefer, “the Swiss Army chainsaw.” By either of its future nicknames, version 1.0 of the Perl programming ...

I first heard of Perl when I was in middle school in the early 2000s. It was one of the world’s most versatile programming languages, dubbed the Swiss army knife of the Internet.