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 language ...

Under a banner proclaiming the “Programming Republic of Perl,” Larry Wall delivered his State of the Onion address. The crowd ate it up. Wall is the principal author of Perl, a computer language so ...

Those familiar with the geekier side of the tech industry will probably be familiar with the many programming languages behind the world's most popular software. There's Java that's used for Android, ...

Software that integrates Perl programming with the Apache Web server. It provides several features including the ability to access databases and use Perl in Apache modules and configuration files. CGI ...

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. Version 5.38 provides new keywords for object ...

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 ...

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++ tossed in ...