Background – Perl1 to Perl4
•First public release: Dec 18, 1987
•Maintained by Larry Wall
•Perl5 released Dec 19, 1994
•Currently maintained by perl5-porters
• Perl 5.6.x: Gurusamy Sarathy (ActiveState)
• Perl 5.7.x: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Perl6 Update