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, ...

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 ...

The third edition of Programming Perl starts being different from the second edition as early as the cover. It's right there, at the top, the Perl mantra: “There's More than One Way to Do It.” This ...

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 ...

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.

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 programming language turns 25 today. Opinion. Dec 18, 2012 3 mins. Enterprise Applications. Call it 'duct tape' or 'a Swiss Army chainsaw' ...

What programming language should I learn on my Mac? Best programming languages for coders compared, including Swift, Python, Java, C and Perl. Coding has never been more popular, and learning to ...

Is there an equivalent to Java JSP, VB ASP, for Perl that would let me build dynamic HTML pages in an easy way. Also is there an SWT/AWT kinda library to ...