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 ...

The Perl programming community had much to celebrate this year. Shortly after the millennium, along came the first major release of Perl since the middle of the last decade, when Perl 5 made its debut ...

When I first received a copy of Martin Brown's Debugging Perl: Troubleshooting for Programmers from Linux Journal HQ, my initial reaction was: how could anybody possibly write an entire book on ...

Once one of the pillars of the Internet, is Perl now fading away -- or will Perl 6 will spark a renaissance for the programming language? In my life I’ve probably written a few hundred thousand lines ...

Every programming language has its strengths...and its weaknesses. We identify five tasks for which perl is ideally suited, and four that...well, really, shouldn't you choose something else? We all ...

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

Perl blogger Jose Rey offers a noteworthy illustration in his blog this week: seven different renderings of a common text-based guessing game, in different generations of Perl5. Even if your fluency ...

Below is the perl code that prints count and lines from /etc/passwd.<br>So if count 1=>001 if count 10 => 010, count 101 -> 101.<br><br>Count is printed using pattern matching. Can this be done ...

As technology becomes more central to our lives, kids are increasingly being steered towards careers in programming with things like toys that promote coding. Is there still room for the arts in a ...