The Perl programming community had much to celebrate this year. ... But, be warned, this is not a tutorial for those of you wishing to learn to program Perl. In fact, this is the wrong book if you are ...

Perl Tutorial for Beginners. This article will get you started with CGI scripting, the force that makes forms work, your counters count, ... Topics programming tutorials Wiki Webmonkey.

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 ...

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 roots: C, AWK, Lisp, Pascal, sed, and a bit of Smalltalk and C++ ...

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, ...

News. Creator Promises Perl 6 Will Be First Truly Extensible Programming Language. By Joab Jackson; July 25, 2008; Perl creator Larry Wall promised version 6 of Perl will be the first truly extensible ...

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 ...