Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for its rise is difficult ...

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. Each month, we examine ...

Dear Final Debug: I’ve been using Perl to solve problems ever since I was in college. But with so many client-side scripting solutions available now and even a server-side version of Java, is Perl ...

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 Perl language, which dates back to the 1980s, has hit an all-time low in the Tiobe language popularity index this month, dropping to 13th place. Ranked ninth in the Tiobe Index a year ago, Perl ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. by Darryl K. Taft Perl was originally developed by Larry ...

Those familiar with the geekier side of the tech industry will probably be familiar with the many programming languages behind the world's most popular software. There's Java that's used for Android, ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Formerly the priestly language of Webmasters incantations, ...

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 ...