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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

From the back cover: "Open source tools provide a powerful and flexible environment for web development and maintenance." Now, this sounds like the right book for intra/inter/extranet development, and ...

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Bangalore: It’s been 25 years since Larry Wall, a programmer at Unisys released the first version of Perl, the high level, dynamic programming language. The language, whose whole intention was to make ...

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 first major upgrade to the Perl dynamic language in more than five years was released this week, the Perl Foundation said. Version 5.10 of the open source language adds language features and ...

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 ...