The Perl programming community had much to celebrate this year. Shortly after the millennium, along came the first major release of Perl since the middle of the last decade, when Perl 5 made its debut ...

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.

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 ...

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++ ...

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 ...