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, ...

Aimed at biologists who are complete novice programmers, he covers the features of the Perl programming language that will be of most use in helping solve biological problems. The examples used ...

To be clear, the Perl programming language's official website, perl.org, remains secure and intact. Perl.com, unfortunately, is also used as a mirror or backup for distributing modules via CPAN.

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 ...

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 ...

Perl. The Perl programming language has been around for more than 30 years, ... for example, and the language is more forgiving, given its lightweight, usability-focused approach to coding.

News. Creator Promises Perl 6 Will Be First Truly Extensible Programming Language. By Joab Jackson; July 25, 2008; Perl creator Larry Wall promised version 6 of Perl will be the first truly extensible ...

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 ...