#perl
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #perl from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #perl
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-10 04:51 UTC30 uses by 18 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-10 04:51 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #perl.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-10 04:51 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~198 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 20:00
Languages: English (38) · Russian (2)
Avg boosts / post: 0.8
Top of the latest posts
I'm an 👴 so I know C & Perl at an expert level. I'm solid in #Scheme, #Elisp, #Java, and #Python (but slow b/c I must look up details on standard APIs, etc.). I'm learning #Rust, knew #Ruby once upon a time, & dabbled in #Haskell. I also k
@slott56 I suspected a #Python -ista would say that 1ˢᵗ!😀 While #PCRE is basically anywhere you want it to be, it's not the regular expression *syntax* that's missing, it's the regular expression semantics: In Perl, REs are a 1ˢᵗ-class cit
@slott56 I should note that for anything other than text processing, I would prefer #Python over #Perl. I helped write the now-defunct (and really only) massively multi-player online #poker system called #pokersource. (I really gotta get th
What “perl” means
WikipediaPerl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, including "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language".
“Perl” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#perl across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #perl straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/perl