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.

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, ...

Hard to believe, but the 'Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages' and high-class glue holding the Internet together is 25 years young today.

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The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. According to the TIOBE ...

Perl creator Larry Wall promised version 6 of Perl will be the first truly extensible programming language during his annual "State of the Onion" speech at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), ...

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 ...

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. But compared to ...

Feel free to light 25 candles today for “the duct tape of the Internet,” or if you prefer, “the Swiss Army chainsaw.” By either of its future nicknames, version 1.0 of the Perl programming ...

After a long wait, the next version of the Perl programming language will undergo a few betas, followed by a general release this year Perl 6, a long-awaited upgrade to the well-known scripting ...