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, ...

Meet the 'Swiss Army chainsaw' of scripting languages at age 25 Let me get this out of the way up front: Perl isn’t a beautiful language. It’s kind of a mongrel pup with pedigreed academic ...

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 ...

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.