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, ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

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 ...

Builder AU recently caught up with Australian Perl guru Damian Conway to talk about Perl 6, his reasons for choosing Perl over other languages, PHP, and the upcoming Open Source Developers Conference ...

The domain name perl.com was stolen and now points to an IP address associated with malware campaigns. Perl.com is a site owned by Tom Christiansen and has been used since 1997 to post news and ...

With Corinna, the Perl programming language has had a more mature object system since version 5.38 without the previous weak point of missing keywords. Version 5.38 provides new keywords for object ...

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have one thing in common — they both taught themselves to code. Coding can be a very lucrative skill, and learning languages like Perl can ...

In the first article in this series focusing on the top 5 languages for systems admins, I wrote about not being too fond of programming. To recap, it’s not because I don’t see the value behind it, ...

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 ...