Perl Programming Language

Nine years ago Perl was the undisputed king of scripting languages. Python, Ruby and a cadre of others were riding its coattails.

We were promised a new version that would right the wrongs of the previous. Now, nine years later, Perl 6 is still not out and those other, "lesser" languages have overtaken Perl in almost every field. Perl is now fast on its way to irrelevancy.

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