If you get a secret thrill out of a well crafted Perl one-liner, but only have a few that you can pull out of your mental pocket and use, this book may be just what Santa should be leaving under ...

I hope you weren’t expecting actual programming one-liners ( Python , SED , AWK , PERL , Ruby ... The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of ...

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, ...

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++ ...

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. A quarter of a century later, ...

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 ...