PERL, short for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, was created by Larry Wall in 1987. Wall designed PERL to bridge the gap between shell scripting and higher-level programming languages like ...

Perl isn't just a programming language, it's a culture, and this book—more than any other—is your guide, introduction and reference to the culture that is Perl.

So, you're a Perl hacker dipping your toes into Scala. Maybe you want to contribute to Moe. Maybe you want to improve your Perl programming skills by stepping out of your comfort zone. Maybe you're ...

One of the most popular books is "Learning Perl" by Randal L. Schwartz. Another good one, "Modern Perl," is available online for free and attempts to negotiate around Perl's pitfalls. "Programming ...

Optional features of the language (such as warnings and the “strict” pragma) that trap a lot of commmon Perl programming errors are emphasized.

Hard to believe, but the 'Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages' and high-class glue holding the Internet together is 25 years young today.

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, ...

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), ...