Just as there are synonyms in English, Perl has a variety of approaches to writing the same thing. While this is a common feature of programming languages to a certain degree, Perl seems to want to ...

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++ ...

With Corinna, the Perl programming language has had a more mature object system since version 5.38 without the previous weak point of missing keywords.

Larry Wall's annual State of the Onion talk at OSCON foreshadows the long-awaited release of Perl 6. News. ... 6 of the Perl programming language might ... feature-complete, version of Perl 6 ...