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Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.” But at least you can tell it was made by humans.

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.

Novice programmers were able to write sample programs more accurately in Quorum versus Perl–an interesting, but not terribly surprising, result. More surprising was how Perl compared to Randomo.

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 ...

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, ...

Tons of tools and projects still make use of Perl, but PHP, Python, and Ruby have stolen its programming thunder Back then, I posited that Perl 6 might change things, put a new shine on an old ...

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 ...

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