Again, this book isn't a tutorial—it is the definitive description of the language. There's an awful lot of good material here. I was pleased to see regular expressions (Perl's programming language ...

Aimed at biologists who are complete novice programmers, he covers the features of the Perl programming language that will be of most use in helping solve biological problems. The examples used ...

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, ...

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++ ...

Initiated in 2000, version 6 of Perl will be a total rewrite of this widely-used programming language, one that has been called the duct tape of the Internet. Judging from the Wall's presentation, ...

Perl programming language turns 25 today. Opinion. Dec 18, 2012 3 mins. Enterprise Applications. Call it 'duct tape' or 'a Swiss Army chainsaw' ...