The Perl programming community had much to celebrate this year. Shortly after the millennium, along came the first major release of Perl since the middle of the last decade, when Perl 5 made its debut ...

His book is based upon his experiences using Perl to teach students how to program and debug network communications. He uses Perl for this so that students can devote more time to understanding the ...

Perl was originally a language for convenient editing of texts and files and therefore has a particularly powerful set of regular expressions for finding and modifying text passages. These regular ...

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.

An experiment by computer science researchers shows that Perl, a major commercial programming language, is no more intuitive to use than a fake language with a completely random syntax. What gives?

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 ...