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.

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, ...

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 ...

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), ...

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.

Highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 26 years of development. Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide ...