"Perl 1 was released to the public by Larry Wall 20 years ago today. To celebrate, Perl5Porters have released Perl5.10, the latest stable version of Perl 5. Happy Birthday Perl! ..."

"On December 18, 1987, Larry Wall released Perl 1 to the public. That means today is the end of Perl's 20th year..."

"On this 20th birthday of Perl, I'd like to express my appreciation to Larry Wall (and his family) for the many years of leadership, dedication, wit, wisdom, and sacrifice that he has put into Perl. Of course, there are many more people who deserve our thanks for Perl, too many to list here, but Larry has always been a fixture of the community and I'm so thankful for his efforts..."

Perl's 21st anniversary of release is next Thursday, 18 December. Perl 5 is already 14 years old. Though the language has seen many changes since 1994, it can't stand still. Perl 5.10 added many wonderful features and Perl 6 will change the landscape for programming languages, but what's the vision for Perl 5? How can the language stay relevant?

Perl 1 came out on December 18th, 1987. Michael Schwern has put up a repository of the source that builds under modern compilers. How are you celebrating?

"Join TV geek Adam Savage, and a cast of EFF legends and luminaries at EFF's 20th birthday party! Our birthday fundraiser on February 10th will celebrate two decades of digital freedom-fighting in San Francisco's world-famous DNA Lounge..."

Once one of the pillars of the Internet, is Perl now fading away -- or will Perl 6 will spark a renaissance for the programming language?

It's not often that I write about Perl Scripting on Unix Tutorial, but that's just because I don't script in Perl this much on a regular basis. Today, however, I'd like to share one of the building blocks - a really basic piece of functionality which you'll find really useful in almost any Perl script.

"I noticed a discussion about Perl on Hacker News this morning. The linked article is about why the author likes Perl. As with all articles of this type, it attracted the usual "Ruby is better!!" comments.