Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.” But at least you can tell it was made by humans.

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

Scripting languages like PHP, Perl, and JavaScript are taking on programming heavyweights like Java and C, and taking many software developers with them. Find out how the toy languages and duct ...

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, ...

The future of Perl requires both visionaries and mechanics; one of the charms of Win32 Perl Scripting is that Roth manages to balance those roles in his own life and career.

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 ...

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development -- no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...