Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.” But at least you can tell it was made by humans.

Programming The Network With Perl is quite different from other Perl books I have read. Many are written as reference books, whereas this one is written more like a textbook, with exercises at the end ...

An experiment by computer science researchers shows that Perl, a major commercial programming language, is no more intuitive to use than a fake language with a completely random syntax. What gives?

Hard to believe, but the 'Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages' and high-class glue holding the Internet together is 25 years young today.

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), ...

Object-oriented programming techniques are not taught, which are needed for using most of the publicly available Perl libraries.

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 ...

His book is based upon his experiences using Perl to teach students how to program and debug network communications. He uses Perl for this so that students can devote more time to understanding the ...