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 ...

I looked around for a bit, but didn't find much to suit my needs, but as perl goes, i'm sure there are 400 different better ways to do what i'm doing. I have another perl script running, but its a ...

Here’s a trick that I learned recently that allows me to combine a string of arguments into a single variable. In my case, this was necessitated by a script that I was preparing to help analyze ...

The things you can do with a little script! A Wired reporter is telling the story of how a Perl script he wrote led to the arrest of an online sex offender. The magazine is set to release the ...

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.

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 ...

While Perl and Python are two different programming languages, Python has the ability to execute Perl scripts through a built in function. Since Perl and Python are designed for different ...

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 ...

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.