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

PLEAC (Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook) Perl is noted for the Perl Cookbook, which documents common programming problems and their solutions for the language.

The language has been called “the duct tape of the Internet” because of its use as a glue language, tying together systems and interfaces that weren’t designed to work together. In 1991, Programming ...

Meet the 'Swiss Army chainsaw' of scripting languages at age 25 Let me get this out of the way up front: Perl isn’t a beautiful language. It’s kind of a mongrel pup with pedigreed academic ...

Optional features of the language (such as warnings and the “strict” pragma) that trap a lot of commmon Perl programming errors are emphasized.

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), ...

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.

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 ...