since Larry Wall's 'Programming Perl' had a camel on the cover, the camel has always been associated with Perl. the design by committee allusion was probably intentional. but what is code review if it ...

Perl 7 will be almost the same as Perl 5.32, but it is more modern. Most of the ones already activated in the previous version can be used as they are. The reason for upgrading to Perl 7 rather than ...

While other scripting languages have gained popularity, Perl remains a popular choice due to its robust text processing capabilities. It's easy to create "one-liners," or very short scripts, that can ...

News briefs for June 25, 2018. Perl version 5.28.0 has been released. According to LWN.net, highlights of this release, which was 13 months in the making with approximately 730,000 lines of changes, ...

In an interview, the Perl founder says a long-awaited and feature-packed upgrade to the language will appear in December Despite criticisms such as it having a “cryptic syntax,” the Perl language has ...

Debugging is an annoying necessity in any language, whether it's debugging your own code or somebody else's that you've been given to make work on your system. Anything you can do to make debugging ...

The Perl 6 project, which aimed to radically reinvent the open source programming language, first began to take shape in 2000. A decade later, there are several implementations with varying levels of ...