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

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++ ...

Perl is hobbled by its cryptic syntax, causing many to call it the assembly code of the ’90s. One Slashdot insider confirmed that the code base is still written in Perl before pausing and adding ...