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 ...

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 ...

Perl creator Larry Wall promised version 6 of Perl will be the first truly extensible programming language during his annual "State of the Onion" speech at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

I was actually given a copy of this book, Learning Perl on Win32 Systems, but I found for most of the stuff that I do, my copy of Programming Perl, was sufficient. At any rate, it's probably a good ...