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, ...

Hard to believe, but the 'Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages' and high-class glue holding the Internet together is 25 years young today.

1987: The first version of the Perl programming language is released. Perl was the brainchild of Larry Wall, a programmer at ...

With Corinna, the Perl programming language has had a more mature object system since version 5.38 without the previous weak ...

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 ...

Those familiar with the geekier side of the tech industry will probably be familiar with the many programming languages behind ...

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 ...