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

It was ranked ninth this time last year as well. It is ranked 15th in this month’s PyPL index, which gauges language popularity based on searches on language tutorials in Google.

The language has been called “the duct tape of the Internet” because of its use as a glue language, tying together systems and interfaces that weren’t designed to work together. In 1991, Programming ...

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 ...

Perl creator Larry Wall promised version 6 of Perl will be the first truly extensible programming language during his annual "State of the Onion" speech at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), ...