The result is Perl 5.12, which was officially released this week. It was preceded by 5.11, an experimental development release that was issued last year.

I first heard of Perl when I was in middle school in the early 2000s. It was one of the world’s most versatile programming languages, dubbed the Swiss army knife of the Internet. But compared to ...

Even at that, Perl 5 has been continuously tinkered with since 1994, with many additional features keeping Perl at the forefront of programming languages.

The previous is for Perl 5.6 and earlier; in Perl 5.8, delete an action with A and the line number of the action. Breakpoints and watchpoints return control to the debugger from continuous execution, ...

The Perl programming language was first posted to the comp.sources.misc Usenet newsgroup by its creator Larry Wall on December 18, 1987. Now known as a family of high-level, general-purpose, ...

Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.” But at least you can tell it was made by humans.

I've got a perl/tk window, and I've got 1 line in a label that I want to be a larger font than the other widgets (buttons and labels). Every other widget is using the system default font, which is ...

With Rust talking up safety, the biggest names in PHP, Perl, and Ruby all speak up about what's safe -- and not -- in their languages ...