However, writing and managing IT automation scripts can also pose some challenges, especially when you use different programming languages, such as Perl and Python.

Novice programmers were able to write sample programs more accurately in Quorum versus Perl–an interesting, but not terribly surprising, result. More surprising was how Perl compared to Randomo.

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 ...