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 ...

The Perl programming community had much to celebrate this year. ... But, be warned, this is not a tutorial for those of you wishing to learn to program Perl. In fact, this is the wrong book if you are ...

Perl Tutorial for Beginners. This article will get you started with CGI scripting, the force that makes forms work, your counters count, ... Topics programming tutorials Wiki Webmonkey.

Perl. The Perl programming language has been around for more than 30 years, and it has continued to be in development, finding itself at home and fully capable of managing systems, networks, and ...

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, ...

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++ ...