The Perl 6 project, which aimed to radically reinvent the open source programming language, first began to take shape in 2000. A decade later, there are several implementations with varying levels of ...

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A post at the use.perl.org website announced that the Perl Foundation has switched version control systems. The post details how Perl 5 was migrated to git, allowing the language development team to ...

Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987. Version 1.0 released to the comp.sources.misc Usenet newsgroup on December 18, 1987. Originally the only documentation for Perl was a single man ...

Catalyst is the latest in the evolution of open-source Web development frameworks. Written in modern Perl and inspired by many of the projects that came before it, including Ruby on Rails, Catalyst is ...

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 ...

Multilingual ActiveState Komodo 5.0 conquers Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby projects with strong debug facilities, excellent code control, and an unbeatable set of utilities Komodo IDE 5 from ActiveState ...