Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for its rise is difficult ...

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 ...

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. Each month, we examine ...

In an interview, the Perl founder says a long-awaited and feature-packed upgrade to the language will appear in December Despite criticisms such as it having a “cryptic syntax,” the Perl language has ...

An amusing moment in the XML standard — quite possibly the only snippet of the standard anyone’s likely to call amusing — is the bit early in the introduction that proclaims: It shall be easy to write ...

The Perl Foundation is in a shambles due to disputes concerning its (nonexistent) Code of Conduct, its (inconsistent) enforcement of community standards, and an inability to agree on what constitutes ...