Enthusiasm from developers. Perl was the first scripting language developers learned and you’ll find a large community of fans on the Net.

Not-hot scripting language: Perl This former giant laid the foundation of some of the best sites on the Web — one of several accomplishments that earned Perl its worthy comparison to duct tape.

The Perl programming language was first posted to the comp.sources.misc Usenet newsgroup by its creator Larry Wall on December 18, 1987. Now known as a family of high-level, general-purpose, ...

You may think of PERL as something for Unix gurus, but wise Windows administrators can also benefit from this powerful scripting language.

The Perl language, which dates back to the 1980s, has hit an all-time low in the Tiobe language popularity index this month, dropping to 13th place. Ranked ninth in the Tiobe Index a year ago ...

You may think of PERL as something for Unix gurus, but wise Windows administrators can also benefit from this powerful scripting language.

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 ...

Editors exist for all kinds of scripting needs—some free, some cheap, and some not-so-cheap. Use this guide to help you find the right product for your work.

Last week, Apple released the first security update of 2009. That security update included fixes for the system default version of the Perl scripting language interpreter, which had potential ...