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, ...

By either of its future nicknames, version 1.0 of the Perl programming language was released on Dec ... (2012’s 25 Geekiest 25 th Anniversaries) The history of Perl is well chronicled here ...

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 ...

A programmer conversant in Java, PHP, Ruby, Python or Perl will have little difficulty ... Bergin and Richard G. Gibson’s History of Programming Languages, 2nd Ed. It was installed on the ...

SEE: Programming languages: Which was most popular each year? (free PDF) (TechRepublic) The Perl programming language has been around for more than 30 years, and it has continued to be in ...

After a long wait, the next version of the Perl programming language will undergo a few betas, followed by a general release this year Perl 6, a long-awaited upgrade to the well-known scripting ...