Intermediate Perl was created in 2003.
Black Perl was created in 1990.
Programming Perl was created in 1991.
Learning Perl was created in 1997.
Mastering Perl was created in 2007.
Perl Cookbook was created in 1998-08.
Perl Data Language was created in 1996.
Higher-Order Perl was created in 2005.
Obfuscated Perl Contest was created in 1996.
Advanced Perl Programming was created in 2005.
Perl Best Practices was created in 2005-07.
Perl is a programming language. Perl is an interpreted programming language. Perl is very useful for shell scripts, application programming, and web applications. Perl is quite easy to learn. Perl can be, but does not have to be, object-oriented. Perl was created by Larry Wall. Perl has probably the best implementation of regular expressions in existence.
According to the perlhist man page, Perl 1.000 was released on December 18, 1987.