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 ...

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 ...

Title: Programming the Network with PerlAuthor: Paul BarryPublisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.URL: glasnost.itcarlow.ie/~pnb/index.html The focus of Programming the ...

Putting a new twist on the programming language popularity game, Stack Overflow data scientists decided to explore the opposite, concluding that Perl is the most "disliked" language, followed by ...

Can anyone please recommend a programming language that I can use that is fairly easy to learn in Linux? I'm interested in doing some basic programming but have no idea what the diffrences are between ...

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 ...