PLEAC (Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook) Perl is noted for the Perl Cookbook, which documents common programming problems and their solutions for the language.

I wish I had found Programming The Network With Perl two years ago. It really has opened my eyes to the power of Perl. The first chapter gives a brief overview of the basics of Perl. Users who are new ...

The language has been called “the duct tape of the Internet” because of its use as a glue language, tying together systems and interfaces that weren’t designed to work together. In 1991, Programming ...

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

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 ...