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

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 ...

Obfuscated Programming – 6 language Polyglot (C, Shell, Perl, Brainf***, Befunge, Whitespace) Happy New Year in 4 languages (C, Fortran, C Shell and Bourne Shell) ...

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. (Image: Miriam Doerr, Martin Frommherz ...

One of the Perl programming language's best-loved nicknames is "the Swiss Army chainsaw." The nickname also seems unfortunately applicable to Perl's recent community discourse.

Google today supports only the Python language in Google App Engine. But one Googler is working on an unofficial--so far--expansion that could use Perl, too.

In his annual “State of the Onion” speech at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), Perl creator Larry Wall hinted that the long-awaited version 6 of the Perl programming language ...