But a decade is a long time for any scripting language, and there are vastly different personalities in the Internet development game now. Perl is hobbled by its cryptic syntax, causing many to ...

Not-hot scripting language: Perl This former giant laid the foundation of some of the best sites on the Web — one of several accomplishments that earned Perl its worthy comparison to duct tape.

Enthusiasm from developers. Perl was the first scripting language developers learned and you’ll find a large community of fans on the Net.

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, ...

You may think of PERL as something for Unix gurus, but wise Windows administrators can also benefit from this powerful scripting language.

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where the languages were headed ...

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

You may think of PERL as something for Unix gurus, but wise Windows administrators can also benefit from this powerful scripting language.