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, ...

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 ...

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. But compared to ...

After a long wait, the next version of the Perl programming language will undergo a few betas, followed by a general release this year Perl 6, a long-awaited upgrade to the well-known scripting ...

SEE: Programming languages: Which was most popular each year? (free PDF) (TechRepublic) The Perl programming language has been around for more than 30 years, and it has continued to be in ...

It had been a decade since Perl 6 was announced ... a catalyst for a significant number of other languages that have contributed heavily to the programming world in general.

By either of its future nicknames, version 1.0 of the Perl programming language was released on Dec. 18, 1987 by its creator Larry Wall. A quarter of a century later, some have written off Perl as ...

Google programmers are adding support for the Perl programming language to its App Engine service for hosting Web applications, but so far it's not really an official project. Google programmers ...

Seven other languages worth considering are Dart, Kotlin, MATLAB, Perl, Ruby, Rust and Scala. Following in alphabetical order is a brief summary of programming languages. See also client/server ...