Maybe you can pull something from the Perl 5.8.0 press release.

Perl, the Practical Extraction and Report Language, was first released by Larry Wall, a linguist and programmer, in 1987. Since then it has become the automation tool of choice for systems administrators and programmers around the world.

It is available for a bewildering number of platforms: virtually all known and current UNIX derivatives are supported as are other systems like Windows, Mac OS, VMS, MS-DOS, OS/2, QNX, BeOS, and the Amiga. Perl is now included in the default installs of Apple's Mac OS X and Sun Solaris version 9.

Perl is most commonly associated with web programming, being the development tool of choice for many people serving dynamic, data driven web pages. Several methods are available for running Perl on the web, such as the ever-popular CGI and mod_perl, the enterprise-class application module. According to Security Space, mod_perl is deployed on over 1.6 million Apache web servers, a constantly-rising figure that does not include the millions of servers running Perl through CGI.

Sites making use of Perl include Amazon.com, Wired, Slashdot.org, Alexa and the Internet Wayback machine, a hundred terabyte archive which is five times larger than the the Library of Congress.

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