Perl

Quality:

Perl - interpreted programming language first released in 1987. This programming language is the 20^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 17^th most popular programming language in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Perl” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 17^th most popular in programming languages in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4491^st most popular in AI.

The 20^th most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article “Perl”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3723 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4491^st place).

Perl is on the 17^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 20^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 46 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13049 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #268 in March 2018
• Global: #30 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1500 in August 2009
• Global: #4350 in December 2008

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Perl		86.0903
2	Korean (ko) 펄		83.9906
3	Chinese (zh) Perl		72.0424
4	German (de) Perl (Programmiersprache)		60.4504
5	Russian (ru) Perl		50.4886
6	Min Nan (zhminnan) Perl		49.5108
7	Tamil (ta) பெர்ள்		46.9761
8	Spanish (es) Perl		46.105
9	Persian (fa) پرل		45.8987
10	Hungarian (hu) Perl (programozási nyelv)		44.7667

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Perl		9 478 434
2	Japanese (ja) Perl		1 627 241
3	Russian (ru) Perl		1 472 922
4	German (de) Perl (Programmiersprache)		1 293 980
5	Spanish (es) Perl		1 214 172
6	French (fr) Perl (langage)		704 289
7	Chinese (zh) Perl		590 917
8	Polish (pl) Perl		551 292
9	Portuguese (pt) Perl		358 693
10	Italian (it) Perl		288 481

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Perl		14 715
2	Russian (ru) Perl		2 085
3	German (de) Perl (Programmiersprache)		1 882
4	Japanese (ja) Perl		1 874
5	Chinese (zh) Perl		1 330
6	French (fr) Perl (langage)		1 084
7	Spanish (es) Perl		985
8	Italian (it) Perl		407
9	Portuguese (pt) Perl		392
10	Simple English (simple) Perl		368

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Perl		1 098
2	German (de) Perl (Programmiersprache)		400
3	French (fr) Perl (langage)		230
4	Russian (ru) Perl		205
5	Italian (it) Perl		117
6	Spanish (es) Perl		111
7	Japanese (ja) Perl		106
8	Chinese (zh) Perl		99
9	Dutch (nl) Perl (programmeertaal)		96
10	Polish (pl) Perl		76

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Perl		3
2	Latin (la) Perl		3
3	Korean (ko) 펄		2
4	Persian (fa) پرل		1
5	Japanese (ja) Perl		1
6	Polish (pl) Perl		1
7	Arabic (ar) بيرل		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Perl		0
9	Belarusian (be) Perl		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Пърл (език за програмиране)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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