在编程语言的世界里，潮起潮落再正常不过。某些语言在短短几年内从炙手可热跌入冷门角落，而也有一些“老兵”在沉寂多年后突然杀回榜单前列。例如在上月和本月 TIOBE 榜单上，都有一个意外主角出现在 Top 10——1987 年诞生的 Perl。

Network programming”–the term had a distinct meaning once, but now it begs the question, “Is there another kind?” That’s why Lincoln Stein’s Network Programming with Perl is valuable. It shows how one ...

Object-oriented programming techniques are not taught, which are needed for using most of the publicly available Perl libraries.

To be clear, the Perl programming language's official website, perl.org, remains secure and intact. Perl.com, unfortunately, is also used as a mirror or backup for distributing modules via CPAN.

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, ...

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. Shortly after the millennium, along came the first major release of Perl since the middle of the last decade, when Perl 5 made its debut ...

Hard to believe, but the 'Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages' and high-class glue holding the Internet together is 25 years young today.