"...Perl 6 is a rewrite of the Perl language. It will feel Perly, and yet become more modern as it pulls in influences from languages like Ruby and Haskell.

Technically, Perl 6 is just a language specification, and there are at least two implementations underway..."

Two major Perl events will take place in Italy, thanks to the effort of the Italian Perl users and the Pisa.pm users group.

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?

"Moritz Lenz has started a series of blog posts about moving from Perl 5 to Perl 6, including why some design choices were made, and how you can take advantage of some of the Perl 6 features today in Perl 5..."

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?

Lately, the Perl language has had less buzz surrounding it than many other languages and development environments, but Perl is still a key component on the Internet.

The Perl Foundation has migrated Perl 5 to the Git version control system, making it easier than ever for Perl's development team to continue to improve the language that powers many websites.

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.

"One of the things I’ve been doing, in my current state of unemployment, is pondering the world of Perl blogs.A month or so back, I happened to google for perl blogs and found almost nothing of use on the front page..."