Hard to believe, but the 'Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages' and high-class glue holding the Internet together is 25 years young today.

To be clear, the Perl programming language's official website, perl.org, remains secure and intact. Perl.com, unfortunately, is also used as a mirror or backup for distributing modules via CPAN.

With Corinna, the Perl programming language has had a more mature object system since version 5.38 without the previous weak point of missing keywords.

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 ...

Perl.com is a site owned by Tom Christiansen and has been used since 1997 to post news and articles about the Perl programming language.