Hard to believe, but the 'Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages' and high-class glue holding the Internet together is 25 years young today.

Network admins can find themselves spread a bit thin during these times of remote work while trying to provide support for all users. Leveraging programming to automate common tasks may help.

His book is based upon his experiences using Perl to teach students how to program and debug network communications. He uses Perl for this so that students can devote more time to understanding the ...

The Perl programming community had much to celebrate this year. Shortly after the millennium, along came the first major release of Perl since the middle of the last decade, when Perl 5 made its debut ...

Tons of tools and projects still make use of Perl, but PHP, Python, and Ruby have stolen its programming thunder Back then, I posited that Perl 6 might change things, put a new shine on an old ...