Perl was originally a language for convenient editing of texts and files and therefore has a particularly powerful set of regular expressions for finding and modifying text passages. These regular ...

The Perl programming community had much to celebrate this year. Shortly after the millennium, along came the first major release of Perl since the middle of the last decade, when Perl 5 made its debut ...

News Creator Promises Perl 6 Will Be First Truly Extensible Programming Language By Joab Jackson July 25, 2008 Perl creator Larry Wall promised version 6 of Perl will be the first truly extensible ...