As technology becomes more central to our lives, kids are increasingly being steered towards careers in programming with things like toys that promote coding. Is there still room for the arts in a ...

Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987. Version 1.0 released to the comp.sources.misc Usenet newsgroup on December 18, 1987. Originally the only documentation for Perl was a single man ...

A number of options are available for Perl developers who want to reduce the amount of work and tedium involved in writing Perl CGI scripts that interact with a database server. Some of these ...

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 roots: C, AWK, Lisp, Pascal, sed, and a bit of Smalltalk and C++ tossed in ...

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 ...