Perl Language History

The Perl programming language has a history of more than 26 years.

December 18, 1987 Larry Wall introduced the Perl programming language, and the first post to quote the language was in 88 January, from Google's discussion group: Perl, a "replacement" for awk and sed. The post says Perl Used to replace the awk and SED tools under Linux.

Perl does make awk and sed obsolete, and Perl makes it more powerful for system administrators without having to be portable and complex C programs.

Happy Birthday to Perl!

Via Modernperlbooks

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