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CodeSource | Why Perl Quietly Disappeared

This is the story of Perl. How a missionary’s broken dream became theinvisible engine of the internet and how success, ego, and a fifteen-year quest for perfection nearly tore it all apart.

A man throws a coffee mug against a hotel wall. Five mugs, actually. One by one. Shattering porcelain across a conference room in Monterey, California, in front of some of the most important programmers on the planet. 


And with that tantrum which, by the way, was completely staged,  the future of an entire programming language changed forever.


But before the coffee mugs and the fifteen-year saga that nearly destroyed a community… there was a language that quietly stitched together the entire early internet. Yahoo, Amazon, Craigslist, IMDb all built on it.


Even the Human Genome Project   the effort to decode the very blueprint of human life, was saved by it. 

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