Yes, Perl is not a "dead language" and is still alive today. However, compared to its heyday (late 1990s to early 2000s), its ...

For the second time in six months, Perl has re-entered the Top 10 of the TIOBE index, causing people to ask why a language that seemed to have been sidelined for a long time is experiencing a ...

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 ...

Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for its rise is difficult to pinpoint. Image: mstandret / Envato Last month, Perl’s gradual rise over ...

Laura Varley is the Careers editor at Silicon Republic. She has a background in technology PR and journalism and is borderline obsessed with film and television, the theatre, Marvel and Mayo GAA. She ...

This book illustrates programming basics with variables, operators, and functions before moving on to demonstrate the creation of reusable Perl modules. Mike McGrath then shows how Perl can read and ...

The Perl language, which dates back to the 1980s, has hit an all-time low in the Tiobe language popularity index this month, dropping to 13th place. Ranked ninth in the Tiobe Index a year ago, Perl ...

With Corinna, the Perl programming language has had a more mature object system since version 5.38 without the previous weak point of missing keywords. Version 5.38 provides new keywords for object ...