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 ...

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 first version of Perl was created by Larry Wall, who released it in late 1987 as a Unix scripting language. Over the years, subsequent versions have been released, with Perl 5 appearing in 1994.

Perl is a scripting language, which means its main use is for automating system tasks and controlling applications. Superficially, it most resembles C in its syntax, but borrows from a lot of other ...

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

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

It used to be that software developers used scripting languages like Python, Perl and Ruby for prototyping, fully expecting to re-write their applications into a "real" language (such as C++ or ...