Almost 26 years after it was first released, Perl is finally looking to upgrade its major version number from Perl 5, to Perl 7. Speaking at the Perl Conference in the Cloud, project lead Sawyer X ...

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 ...

Perl 5.10, the first revamp of the quick-and-dirty open-source programming language project in five years, pilfers some features from Perl 6. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen ...

Once one of the pillars of the Internet, is Perl now fading away -- or will Perl 6 will spark a renaissance for the programming language? In my life I’ve probably written a few hundred thousand lines ...

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 ...