Those familiar with the geekier side of the tech industry will probably be familiar with the many programming languages behind the world's most popular software. There's Java that's used for ...

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 ...

Perl.com is a site owned by Tom Christiansen and has been used since 1997 to post news and articles about the Perl programming language ... is now hosted has a long history of being used in ...

The Most-Often Recommended Programming Languages for Beginners Most of the "mainstream" programming languages—such as C, Java, C#, Perl ... the advantage of a long history of usage.

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, ...

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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

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 ...