Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for its rise is difficult ...

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. Each month, we examine ...

Two key areas for improving Perl programming are achieving better support for Win32 and efficiently producing an executable version of your program. Here, we've rounded up a couple of tips to address ...

Perl 5.10, the first revamp of the quick-and-dirty open-source programming language project in five years, pilfers some features from Perl 6. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen ...

I write Perl programs that use the Windows shell command dir. The dir command is built into cmd.exe and there is no dir.exe in the System folder. My colleagues use my Perl programs and some of them ...

So I've searched high and low for an answer and I can't seem to find one, everything I've come across assumes I'm running my perl script from a server. <BR><BR>So I have a program that runs client ...

spider.pl is a program for fetching documnts from a web server, and outputs the documents to STDOUT in a special format designed to be read by Swish-e. The spider can index non-text documents such as ...

Under a banner proclaiming the “Programming Republic of Perl,” Larry Wall delivered his State of the Onion address. The crowd ate it up. Wall is the principal author of Perl, a computer language so ...

Combining automated testing and over 100,000 available Perl modules in CPAN, modern Perl moved from a prototyping tool to major deployments because of reliability. Before version 5.16 had officially ...

In the December 2000 issue of Linux Journal, I reviewed the latest edition of the classic Perl text: Programming Perl, 3rd Edition (or The Camel for short). In that review, my advice to new Perl ...