McMillen writes that much of the time, the results worked simply because Perl can parse unquoted character strings as text that other programming languages would reject outright.

Scripting languages like PHP, Perl, and JavaScript are taking on programming heavyweights like Java and C, and taking many software developers with them. Find out how the toy languages and duct ...

The future of Perl requires both visionaries and mechanics; one of the charms of Win32 Perl Scripting is that Roth manages to balance those roles in his own life and career.

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

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where the languages were headed ...