Resurgence may be due to Perl 5 now being viewed as the ‘real’ Perl after decades of confusion over Perl 6, Tiobe exec says. Perl, a once-popular programming language that dates back to 1987, has seen ...

Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for its rise is difficult to pinpoint. Last month, Perl’s gradual rise over the summer into the top 10 ...

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, ...

For the second time in six months, Perl has re-entered the Top 10 of the TIOBE index, causing people to ask why a language that seemed to have been sidelined for a long time is experiencing a ...

Perl is seeing a real revival in interest. Why? Because Perl is a fantastic DevOps tool. With the rise of DevOps, Perl has once again solidified its long held reputation as the duct tape of the ...

Those familiar with the geekier side of the tech industry will probably be familiar with the many programming languages behind the world's most popular software. There's Java that's used for Android, ...

If you hear the name "mod_perl" and feel a sense of nostalgia, you are likely an engineer of a certain generation. It will ...

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 its ...