Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.” But at least you can tell it was made by ...

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), ...

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 ...

They created a “placebo language” called Randomo, whose syntax was randomly generated, to use in trials alongside Quorum and Perl.

Meet the 'Swiss Army chainsaw' of scripting languages at age 25 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 ...

Perl is hobbled by its cryptic syntax, causing many to call it the assembly code of the ’90s. One Slashdot insider confirmed that the code base is still written in Perl before pausing and adding ...

Perl syntax is particularly flexible—a Perl motto is “There's more than one way to do it”. This can make Perl code confusing for the novice, but he has been careful to use consistent idioms ...