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++ ...

CREATE FUNCTION funcname (argument-types) RETURNS return-type AS ' # PL/Perl function body ' LANGUAGE plperl; The body of the function is ordinary Perl code. Arguments and results are handled as in ...

Perl is a popular and versatile programming language that can handle complex tasks with ease. However, like any other language, it also has some challenges when it comes to memory management.

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, ...

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 ...

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