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++ ...

Coding can be a very lucrative skill, and learning languages like Perl can earn you a starting salary of upwards of $80,000 a year. Some coders have even landed six-figure jobs with only a few ...