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, ...

Aimed at biologists who are complete novice programmers, he covers the features of the Perl programming language that will be of most use in helping solve biological problems. The examples used ...

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 ...

To build a website or webapp, for example, you should learn ... for Beginners Most of the "mainstream" programming languages—such as C, Java, C#, Perl, Ruby, and Python—can do the same ...

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), ...