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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

#100 Larry Wall – Programmer Creator of Perl, one of the most common scripting languages. #99 Paul D. Nielsen – SEI Head of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon, home of CERT, the ...

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 ...

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 ...