How a linguist's 1987 glue language conquered the early web, the sysadmin's toolbox, and the human genome — then froze its own momentum for fifteen years waiting on a rewrite that became a separate language. The rise, the reign, the Perl 6 schism, and the legacy that still runs in production.
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Perl: Still Powering the World's Sysadmin Scripts Modern Perl, CPAN, regex power, and where it still wins — an honest technical deep-dive for engineers who've heard 'Perl is dead' and want to know what's actually true.