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, ...

2021年12月18日，Perl迎来了自己34岁的生日。 当程序员聊到Perl会聊些什么呢？在各大平台搜索Perl时，你会发现大家对Perl的态度呈现出一种两级分化的状态，有人对Perl依旧保持着热情，视若珍宝，但也有人对Perl嗤之以鼻，有人甚至写下“Perl正加速走向死亡，也许 ...

I first heard of Perl when I was in middle school in the early 2000s. It was one of the world’s most versatile programming languages, dubbed the Swiss army knife of the Internet. But compared to its ...

Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for its rise is difficult to pinpoint. Last month, Perl’s gradual rise over the summer into the top 10 ...

Perl, a once-popular programming language that dates back to 1987, has seen a resurgence in the Tiobe index of language popularity. The language ranked 10th in this month’s Tiobe index, having risen ...

Feel free to light 25 candles today for “the duct tape of the Internet,” or if you prefer, “the Swiss Army chainsaw.” By either of its future nicknames, version 1.0 of the Perl programming language ...

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 ...