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 ...

Optional features of the language (such as warnings and the “strict” pragma) that trap a lot of commmon Perl programming errors are emphasized.

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 ...