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 ...

There is plenty more to learn about Perl, some of which is touched on in the last chapter. Object-oriented programming techniques are not taught, which are needed for using most of the publicly ...

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 ...