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, ...

Wall designed Perl to reflect the realities of modern computer programming. As the cost of hardware was dropping and computers became a central feature of everyday life, the cost of programmers ...

The Perl programming community had much to celebrate this year. Shortly after the millennium, along came the first major release of Perl since the middle of the last decade, when Perl 5 made its debut ...

Hard to believe, but the 'Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages' and high-class glue holding the Internet together is 25 years young today.

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.

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 build Perl UI apps? I looked at MozDev ...

What programming language should I learn on my Mac? Best programming languages for coders. Swift, Python, Java, C and Perl compared.

Perl creator Larry Wall promised version 6 of Perl will be the first truly extensible programming language during his annual "State of the Onion" speech at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), ...

Feel free to light 25 candles today for “the duct tape of the Internet,” or if you prefer, “the Swiss Army chainsaw.” By either of its future nicknames, version 1.0 of the Perl programming ...

Perl is the tool that he uses to illustrate and manipulate the network. Mr. Barry is a lecturer on Computer Networking at the Institute of Technology, Carlow in Ireland. His book is based upon his ...