Larry Wall began work on Perl in 1987, while working as a programmer at Unisys, and released version 1.0 to the comp.sources.misc newsgroup on December 18, 1987.
Larry Wall comezou a traballar en Perl en 1987 mentres traballaba como programador en Unisys e anunciou a versión 1.0 no grupo de novas comp.sources.misc o 18 de decembro de 1987.