Combining automated testing and over 100,000 available Perl modules in CPAN, modern Perl moved from a prototyping tool to major deployments because of reliability. Before version 5.16 had officially ...
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 ...
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 ...