Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose programming language that makes easy things easy and hard things possible. It is optimized for scanning arbitrary text files and system administration. It has built-in extended regular expression matching and replacement, a dataflow mechanism to improve security with setuid scripts and is extensible via modules that can interface to C libraries.
| Tags | Software Development Interpreters |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Artistic GPL |
| Implementation | Perl C |
Recent releases
- 19 Dec 2007 06:30
Changes: This version includes a new smart match operator, a switch statement, the // defined-or operator, regular expression improvements, and other language changes (some inspired by Perl 6). The Perl interpreter itself is faster, with a smaller memory footprint and several UTF-8 and threading improvements.
- 02 Feb 2006 01:17
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 28 Jun 2005 23:39
Changes: This is a maintenance release for perl 5.8, incorporating various minor bugfixes and optimizations. Unicode Character Database 4.1.0 is used. An optional site customization script is available. Config.pm is now much smaller. Various modules were upgraded. Minor performance enhancements were made.
- 04 Feb 2005 14:31
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 27 Jul 2004 03:35
Changes: Perl's regular expression engine now contains support for matching on the intersection of two Unicode character classes. You can also now refer to user-defined character classes from within other user-defined character classes.
- All comments
Recent commentsRe: Announcments
> Would be great, if new versions would be
> announced at freshmeat.
Luckily they seem to be keeping this page up to date nowadays. The latest version is 5.8.8 and the site was promptly updated.
Perl
Perl is a wonderful language.
Announcments
Would be great, if new versions would be announced at freshmeat.
The latest version is 5.8.2, not 5.8.0.
Regards
5.8.0
Works great with mod_perl, everything compiled fastly and efficiently. Great stuff