Perl Programming Language Turns 25 Today

[HardOCP News]

Perl turns 25 today. Damn, a quarter of a century. I feel old now.

Feel free to light 25 candles today for "the duct tape of the Internet," or if you prefer, "the Swiss Army chainsaw." By either of its future nicknames, version 1.0 of the Perl programming language was released on Dec. 18, 1987 by its creator Larry Wall.

 

[naninani]

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Happy Birthday\n";

 

[Staples]

Perl was great in its time but Python has largely taken over its role.

 

[Tankerton]

I used to love Perl, but it just seems to have stagnated. These days all my scripting is in Python. I like that there aren't six different ways to write a single If-statement. Makes picking a standard easier on a team --it is part of the language.