An experiment by computer science researchers shows that Perl, a major commercial programming language, is no more intuitive to use than a fake language with a completely random syntax. What gives?

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, ...

Again, this book isn't a tutorial—it is the definitive description of the language. There's an awful lot of good material here. I was pleased to see regular expressions (Perl's programming language ...

Programming in Perl. Content: The lecture introduces programming with Perl and deals with the basic properties of the language: syntax, data types, commands and functions. Further emphasis is placed ...

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, ...

Perl. The Perl programming language has been around for more than 30 years, and it has continued to be in development, finding itself at home and fully capable of managing systems, networks, and ...

No, today, scripting languages are popular for "real" programming work. In fact, entire systems and large-scale enterprise-grade projects are built from them. Topics ...

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++ ...