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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Biologists these days can generate vast quantities of data with relative ease. Bioinformaticians write the programs that facilitate the production and use of this data. It is possible get by using the ...

Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into interesting programming languages. In the past we have spoken to Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language, Don Syme, senior ...

TIOBE Programming Index News September 2025: Perl Regains the Spotlight Your email has been sent Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for ...

Developers trying to jump from one language to another often hit the same wall: How do I do this? They can do it in their base language, but introduce them to a strange new world, and the going gets ...