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, ...

Resurgence may be due to Perl 5 now being viewed as the ‘real’ Perl after decades of confusion over Perl 6, Tiobe exec says. Perl, a once-popular programming language that dates back to 1987, has seen ...

Perl 5.10, the first revamp of the quick-and-dirty open-source programming language project in five years, pilfers some features from Perl 6. The Perl Foundation has released Perl 5.10, the first new ...

I'm running my server on redhat linux. I have a perl program that I execute weekly to perform a task and emails the results. Instead of running it from within linux command. Is it possible to create a ...

Perl is seeing a real revival in interest. Why? Because Perl is a fantastic DevOps tool. With the rise of DevOps, Perl has once again solidified its long held reputation as the duct tape of the ...

spider.pl is a program for fetching documnts from a web server, and outputs the documents to STDOUT in a special format designed to be read by Swish-e. The spider can index non-text documents such as ...

Every programming language has its strengths...and its weaknesses. We identify five tasks for which perl is ideally suited, and four that...well, really, shouldn't you choose something else? We all ...

Perl 5.16 hit the streets last week, and upgrading is no longer a question of “what will break” but rather “how boring is this process?” The author of Modern Perl, chromatic, reports upgrading a major ...

Perl is seeing a real revival in interest. Why? Because Perl is a fantastic DevOps tool. With the rise of DevOps, Perl has once again solidified its long held reputation as the duct tape of the ...