Perliscope author traces style evolution Good reading makes for good writing; literary authors know that, and we programmers need to take more advantage of the opportunities before us. Perl ...

"Perl 5.12.0 represents approximately two years of development since version 5.10.0 and contains over 750,000 lines of changes across over 3,000 files from over 200 authors and committers," he wrote.

The new concepts, syntax additions, and myriad changes in Perl 6 may create a barrier to widespread adoption, especially with the vast amount of existing Perl 5 code out in the world right now.

Debugging is an annoying necessity in any language, whether it's debugging your own code or somebody else's that you've been given to make work on your system. Anything you can do to make debugging ...

This article describes how Perl is used to generate Perl CGI code using the multi-platform CGIScripter application. The resulting output code automates SQL table creation commands (in this example, ...

It turns out there might be a closer connection between the two than you’d think, as a software engineer discovered that random paint splatters are actually valid Perl code in disguise.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Descrambling DVDs just got even easier, thanks to a pair of MIT programmers.Using only seven lines of Perl code, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz have created the shortest-yet ...

This Perl script will generate HTML pages for displaying photos on the Web.