Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development — no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...

In the older days of open source software, major projects tended to have their Benevolent Dictators For Life who made all the final decisions, and some mature projects still operate that way. Guido ...

Title: Core PerlAuthor: Reuven M. LernerPublisher: Prentice-Hall, Inc.URL: www.coreperl.comISBN: 0-13-035181-4Price: US$44.99 Every Linux Journal reader is probably familiar with Reuven Lerner's "At ...

You may think of PERL as something for Unix gurus, but wise Windows administrators can also benefit from this powerful scripting language. So just what is PERL, and where did it come from? PERL stands ...

After a long wait, the next version of the Perl programming language will undergo a few betas, followed by a general release this year Perl 6, a long-awaited upgrade to the well-known scripting ...

Every programming language has its strengths...and its weaknesses. We identify five tasks for which perl is ideally suited, and four that...well, really, shouldn't you choose something else? We all ...

1987: The first version of the Perl programming language is released. Perl was the brainchild of Larry Wall, a programmer at Unisys, who borrowed from existing languages, especially C, to create a ...