Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.” But at least you can tell it was made by ...

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++ ...

No, today, scripting languages are popular for "real" programming work. In fact, entire systems and large-scale enterprise-grade projects are built from them.

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 ...