Perl is a programming language created by Larry Wall in 1987. It gained popularity in the 1990’ and was also referred to as the “duct tape that holds the Internet together”. For esthetic and practical purposes I will be referring to Perl 5 in this article as Perl.

Last December it turned 30, an important milestone for every language, 30 years of Perl, 30 years of people and companies from all over t…