Those familiar with the geekier side of the tech industry will probably be familiar with the many programming languages behind the world's most popular software. There's Java that's used for Android, ...

Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987. Version 1.0 released to the comp.sources.misc Usenet newsgroup on December 18, 1987. Originally the only documentation for Perl was a single man ...

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 ...

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When I first received a copy of Martin Brown's Debugging Perl: Troubleshooting for Programmers from Linux Journal HQ, my initial reaction was: how could anybody possibly write an entire book on ...

The Perl Foundation is in a shambles due to disputes concerning its (nonexistent) Code of Conduct, its (inconsistent) enforcement of community standards, and an inability to agree on what constitutes ...

Many companies are publishing worthwhile books about Perl, but there’s a good chance that the next time a colleague recommends a Perl reference, it will be published by O’Reilly and Associates. Perl ...

Builder AU recently caught up with Australian Perl guru Damian Conway to talk about Perl 6, his reasons for choosing Perl over other languages, PHP, and the upcoming Open Source Developers Conference ...

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 ...