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

Formerly the priestly language of Webmasters incantations, Perl is being adopted across a broadening spectrum of tasks. Perl 6, a major re-engineering of the Perl technology, promises to preserve ...

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages ...

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing ...