Basic-Learn the Perl Programming Language is a beginner's guide designed to teach the fundamentals of programming with Perl. Learn syntax, string manipulation, file handling, and array usage through ...

Superficially, it most resembles C in its syntax, but borrows from a lot of other languages. Perl's History. Perl was created by Larry Wall, a system administrator who was working for NASA's Jet ...

Perl, the open source programming language used by developers and sysadmins to automate any number of text-wrangling and data-management tasks, celebrates its 25th birthday on Tuesday. It was on ...

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?

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, ...

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 ...