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

What follows is a barometer of scripting languages — JavaScript, ActionScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, Scala, R, PHP, and Java — with our best-guess forecast of which languages are rising and ...

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 ...

Initiated in 2000, version 6 of Perl will be a total rewrite of this widely-used programming language, one that has been called the duct tape of the Internet. Judging from the Wall's presentation, ...

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.

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.

Perl, Tcl and Python are very comprehensive interpreted programming languages that are often called scripting languages. Application Scripts ...

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.

It used to be that software developers used scripting languages like Python, Perl and Ruby for prototyping, fully expecting to re-write their applications into a "real" language (such as C++ or ...

Not-hot scripting language: Perl This former giant laid the foundation of some of the best sites on the Web — one of several accomplishments that earned Perl its worthy comparison to duct tape.