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19 July 2026
- 16:3916:39, 19 July 2026 Raising a Working wxPerl Shop on Windows (hist | edit) [31,116 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Previous essay:''' The Perl Lazarus Workshop '''Series:''' Essays about The Virtuous Perl Programmer Category:The Virtuous Perl Programmer Category:Perl Lazarus Project Category:wxPerl")
- 16:3916:39, 19 July 2026 The Perl Lazarus Workshop (hist | edit) [30,127 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Previous essay:''' The Perl Craftsman Returns to the Windows Desktop '''Series:''' Essays about The Virtuous Perl Programmer '''Next essay:''' Raising a Working wxPerl Shop on Windows Category:The Virtuous Perl Programmer Category:Perl Lazarus Project Category:wxPerl")
- 16:3816:38, 19 July 2026 The Perl Craftsman Returns to the Windows Desktop (hist | edit) [37,187 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{DEFAULTSORT:Perl Craftsman Returns to the Windows Desktop}} '''Series:''' Essays about The Virtuous Perl Programmer '''Next essay:''' The Perl Lazarus Workshop")
- 16:3816:38, 19 July 2026 Portal:Essays about The Virtuous Perl Programmer (hist | edit) [710 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== The Technical Journey == # The Perl Craftsman Returns to the Windows Desktop #: ''Why the journeyman, master, and aspiring Perl programmer should learn to build complete Windows applications.'' # The Perl Lazarus Workshop #: ''Why Strawberry Perl, wxWidgets, wxPerl, wxGlade, MSYS2, PAR, and Inno Setup belong in one practical workshop.'' # Raising a Working wxPerl Shop on Windows|R...")
5 July 2026
- 03:1603:16, 5 July 2026 GUI ideas for use with wxGlade (hist | edit) [11,802 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "**NOTOC** = wxPerl / wxGlade Application Template Catalog = This page catalogs GUI mockups, template applications, and app ideas from the [https://github.com/The-Perl-Cottage-Guild/wxPerl-wxGlade-Templates wxPerl-wxGlade-Templates] repository. The repository is intended as a place to collect [https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxglade/ wxGlade] <code>.wxg</code> project files and working Perl driver scripts that generate wxPerl GUIs directly from wxGlade output. These e...")
- 02:3002:30, 5 July 2026 Wx 3.009, Alien::wxWidgets 0.73, Strawberry Perl 5.42.2.1 PDL (hist | edit) [2,454 bytes] 104.181.193.235 (talk) (Created page with "=== Step 1 - Install Strawberry Perl PDL (5.42.2.1) === Install the Strawberry Perl PDL ZIP edition from the Strawberry Perl release page: <big>[https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/releases/tag/SP_54221_64bit Strawberry Perl 5.42.2.1 64-bit release assets]</big> Download: <big><code>strawberry-perl-5.42.2.1-64bit-PDL.zip</code></big> ==== Installing Strawberry Perl (5.42.2.1) + PDL ==== This build uses the Strawberry Perl PDL edition rather than...")
3 July 2026
- 15:2615:26, 3 July 2026 Portal:Linux (hist | edit) [28,118 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Linux Distributions and Perl == Perl has been closely associated with Linux since the early years of the operating system. Linux inherited much of its userland culture from Unix, and Perl fit naturally into that world: text files, log files, shell scripts, package metadata, system administration, web hosting, mail processing, build systems, and automation. For much of Linux history, a user could reasonably assume that `/usr/bin/perl` existed on a normal installed sys...")
- 15:1315:13, 3 July 2026 Portal:FreeBSD,OpenBSD,etc (hist | edit) [37,736 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== FreeBSD and Perl == FreeBSD has had a long and complicated relationship with Perl. In the 1990s, Perl was close to the Unix system-administration culture from which FreeBSD also grew. Perl was useful for build tools, package tools, administrative scripts, text processing, reporting, mail processing, ports maintenance, and the daily work of Unix developers and system administrators. FreeBSD eventually made an important design decision: Perl should remain available an...")
- 15:0615:06, 3 July 2026 Portal:SaaS and Web Development (hist | edit) [24,705 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Perl and the Early Web == Perl was one of the foundational languages of the early dynamic web. Before modern web frameworks, application servers, JavaScript-heavy front ends, containers, and cloud platforms, many interactive websites were built from small scripts running behind a web server. In that environment, Perl was exceptionally well suited to the job. It could read form input, parse query strings, talk to databases, generate HTML, send mail, process files, and...")
- 15:0115:01, 3 July 2026 Portal:Graphics Programming (hist | edit) [22,492 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Perl and Graphics Programming == Perl has a long and practical history in graphics programming. It has rarely been promoted as a mainstream language for commercial graphics engines, but it has been widely useful for image processing, chart generation, web graphics, scientific visualization, GUI canvas drawing, batch conversion, file-format manipulation, and automated graphics workflows. Perl’s graphics story follows the larger Perl pattern: Perl is often strongest...")
- 14:5614:56, 3 July 2026 Portal:Life Sciences (hist | edit) [22,313 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Perl and Bioinformatics == Perl has a special place in the history of bioinformatics. Although it was not created for biology, Perl became one of the defining programming languages of early computational biology, genomics, and sequence analysis. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Perl was widely used in genome centers, university laboratories, biotechnology companies, and open-source bioinformatics projects because it was exceptionally good at the kind of work biological...")
- 14:5314:53, 3 July 2026 Portal:HPC - High Performance Computing (hist | edit) [25,840 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Perl and High-Performance Computing == Perl has never been the dominant language for high-performance computing in the way that Fortran, C, C++, CUDA, or MPI-oriented scientific codes have been. Nevertheless, Perl has a meaningful and underappreciated history in HPC. Its role has usually been practical: data preparation, workflow orchestration, job submission, file conversion, scientific scripting, parallel task control, database integration, report generation, and g...")
- 14:4814:48, 3 July 2026 Portal:Crypto and Blockchain (hist | edit) [21,349 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Perl, Bitcoin, and Cryptocurrency == Perl’s relationship with Bitcoin and cryptocurrency follows the same pattern seen throughout Perl history: Perl is rarely the center of the fashionable new platform, but it is often useful at the edges where real systems need automation, parsing, cryptography, APIs, databases, monitoring, reporting, and glue code. Cryptocurrency systems combine several areas where Perl has long been strong: cryptography, text and binary encodin...")
- 14:4214:42, 3 July 2026 Portal:Artificial Intelligence (hist | edit) [31,911 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Perl and AI Interfaces == Perl’s relationship with artificial intelligence is older and broader than the modern large-language-model boom. Although Perl is not usually the first language associated with contemporary AI research, it has long been useful for AI-adjacent work: text processing, rule systems, data preparation, classification, search, automation, API integration, model-serving glue code, and scientific computation. Perl’s AI history is best understood...")
- 14:3314:33, 3 July 2026 Portal:Game Development (hist | edit) [16,599 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Perl and Game Development == Perl has never been primarily known as a game-development language, but it has a long and interesting relationship with games, interactive programming, simulations, graphics experiments, terminal applications, web games, and game-development tooling. Perl’s role in game development reflects the language’s larger history: it is practical, expressive, good at text and data, easy to use for prototypes, and unusually effective as glue bet...")
- 14:3114:31, 3 July 2026 Portal:Databases (hist | edit) [18,645 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Perl and Data Development == Perl has been closely tied to data development from its beginning. Before it was known as a web language, Perl was a Unix programmer’s language for extracting, transforming, reporting, and automating work around text files, logs, configuration files, mail, system output, and structured records. Its original strengths—regular expressions, flexible arrays and hashes, file handling, pipes, process control, and concise string manipulation...")
- 14:2214:22, 3 July 2026 Portal:Perl History (hist | edit) [14,970 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== History of Perl == '''Perl''' is a family of high-level, general-purpose programming languages best known for text processing, system administration, web programming, automation, and the culture of practical problem solving that grew around it. The language was created by Larry Wall, who released Perl 1.0 on December 18, 1987, while working as a programmer in the Unix world.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Perl |url=https://www.perl.org/about.html |website=Perl.org |...")
- 01:3301:33, 3 July 2026 Perl and wxWidgets RAD on Windows (hist | edit) [16,993 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Perl and wxWidgets RAD on Windows == This page provides background on earlier efforts to support Perl-based desktop GUI development on Windows, especially through wxWidgets, wxPerl, GUI builders, packaging tools, and installer systems. The short version is that Perl has had many of the pieces needed for Windows GUI development, but it has not had a durable, unified rapid application development environment comparable to Lazarus for Free Pascal. == Big Picture == P...")