In his annual “State of the Onion” speech at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), Perl creator Larry Wall hinted that the long-awaited version 6 of the Perl programming language might finally ...

In an interview, the Perl founder says a long-awaited and feature-packed upgrade to the language will appear in December Despite criticisms such as it having a “cryptic syntax,” the Perl language has ...

Perl creator Larry Wall promised version 6 of Perl will be the first truly extensible programming language during his annual "State of the Onion" speech at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), ...

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 ...

Perl is a language often associated with text processing and CGI. PHP is a language often associated with dynamic Web pages. Both are very popular with Web developers. Often, each of these languages ...

Larry Wall's annual 'State of the Onion' talk at OSCON foreshadows the arrival of the ambitious update to the Perl programming language In his annual “State of the Onion” speech at the O’Reilly Open ...