Editing Portal:Perl History (section)

=== Legacy ===

Perl’s history is the history of a practical language that grew with the Internet, helped define open-source package sharing through CPAN, and built a durable global community. Its influence can be seen in later scripting languages, web development practices, package ecosystems, testing culture, and the everyday automation work that keeps technical systems running.

Although Perl is no longer the default language for every new web project as it often was during the dot-com era, it remains actively developed, widely deployed, and culturally significant. Its continuing story is carried forward by CPAN maintainers, Perl core developers, Perl Mongers, PerlMonks contributors, conference organizers, educators, companies that depend on Perl systems, The Perl and Raku Foundation, and newer community efforts such as perlcommunity.org.