Perl programming language marks 25th birthday

[J65nko]

From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12...25th_birthday/

Perl, the open source programming language used by developers and sysadmins to automate any number of text-wrangling and data-management tasks, celebrates its 25th birthday on Tuesday.

It was on December 18, 1987 that Larry Wall released Perl 1.0, posting the source code to the Usenet newsgroup comp.sources.misc.

[thirdm]

Happy Birthday Perl!

A part of me still wants to try to find a job in one of those places that uses Perl for a really large application going against the cliche that it's only for little data munging one offs and web pages. But I'm too afraid of this being a dead end for me careerwise. C++ seems a safer work niche from what I can see in local listings.