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 ...

Title: Programming the Network with PerlAuthor: Paul BarryPublisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.URL: glasnost.itcarlow.ie/~pnb/index.html The focus of Programming the ...

Content: The lecture introduces programming with Perl and deals with the basic properties of the language: syntax, data types, commands and functions. Further emphasis is placed on the handling of ...

Those familiar with the geekier side of the tech industry will probably be familiar with the many programming languages behind the world's most popular software. There's Java that's used for Android, ...

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 programming ...

Feel free to light 25 candles today for “the duct tape of the Internet,” or if you prefer, “the Swiss Army chainsaw.” By either of its future nicknames, version 1.0 of the Perl programming language ...

Perl 6 finally arrived a few weeks ago, carrying a load of new features without losing its free-form charm. Here's what both Perl diehards and newbies need to know Back in the mid-1990s, I ran an ISP ...

1987: The first version of the Perl programming language is released. Perl was the brainchild of Larry Wall, a programmer at Unisys, who borrowed from existing languages, especially C, to create a ...

Let me get this out of the way up front: Perl isn’t a beautiful language. It’s kind of a mongrel pup with pedigreed academic roots: C, AWK, Lisp, Pascal, sed, and a bit of Smalltalk and C++ tossed in ...