I have personally used and enjoyed the Perl language for nearly 30 years ... first to struggle with "culture wars" revolving around a code of conduct, either, which makes it all the more puzzling ...

It is not new that a language is slowly abandoned by its developers, given the rapidly changing world of coding, an ...

No, today, scripting languages are popular for "real" programming work. In fact, entire systems and large-scale enterprise-grade projects are built from them. Topics ...

The Perl language, which dates back to the 1980s, has hit an all-time low in the Tiobe language popularity index this month, dropping to 13th place. Ranked ninth in the Tiobe Index a year ago ...

lower level language alternatives (namely, C) meant that Perl attracted users without a formal CS background (read: script kiddies and beginners who wrote poor code). It also boasted a small group ...

But Perl is still a popular, practical language used for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files and printing reports based on that information. It’s also ...

protesting and coding languages like JavaScript, HTML, Python and Perl. Computer code as free speech is a relatively new legal concept but has a complicated history. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams ...

The ability will exist for Perl 7 code to be uploaded to CPAN ... Skipping a sixth major version of a language is not unprecedented, with PHP making the jump from 5 to 7 in 2015.

This code can be hosted on a Web server or ... The long downward trend is also found in searches for the language itself. The word “perl” may be one-tenth as trendy on Google as it was only ...