Perl was the first scripting language developers learned and you ... choice or by rule host sites on Windows NT systems can take advantage of the thousands of industrial-strength Perl scripts ...

In 1991, O’Reilly published Programming Perl (the “Camel Book”) which became the de facto reference for the language. ActiveState was the first company to introduce Perl on Windows in 1997.

The post details how Perl 5 was migrated to git, allowing the language development team to take advantage of git's extensive offline and distributed versioning support. Git is open source and ...

I first heard of Perl when I was in middle school in the early 2000s. It was one of the world’s most versatile programming languages, dubbed the Swiss army knife of the Internet. But compared to ...

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 ...

There are a lot of really nice scripting languages available to Unix admins ... some easy fixes for common problems that take advantage of Perl’s versatile nature. Removing blank lines The ...