The Perl programming language was first posted to the comp.sources.misc Usenet ... Perl is used for writing programs across a wide range of fields including systems administration, text processing, ...

Let me get this out of the way up front: Perl isn’t a beautiful language. It’s kind of a ... One of my favorite programming posts of all time is this response to a question on Stackoverflow ...

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 ...