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++ ...

The language has been called “the duct tape of the Internet” because of its use as a glue language, tying together systems and interfaces that weren’t designed to work together. In 1991, Programming ...

To be clear, the Perl programming language's official website, perl.org, remains secure and intact. Perl.com, unfortunately, is also used as a mirror or backup for distributing modules via CPAN.

I first heard of Perl when I was in middle school in the early 2000s. It was one of the world’s most versatile programming languages, dubbed the Swiss army knife of the Internet.

Putting a new twist on the programming language popularity game, Stack Overflow data scientists decided to explore the opposite, concluding that Perl is the most "disliked" language, followed by ...

1987: The first version of the Perl programming language is released. Perl was the brainchild of Larry Wall, a programmer at Unisys, who borrowed from existing languages, especially C, to create a ...

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 ...

According to Wall, the creator of this language, Perl offers more than one way to do something and says that, through Perl, “Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.” The image ...