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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

After a long wait, the next version of the Perl programming language will undergo a few betas, followed by a general release this year Perl 6, a long-awaited upgrade to the well-known scripting ...