The Perl programming language was first posted to the comp.sources.misc Usenet newsgroup by its creator Larry Wall on December 18, 1987. Now known as a family of high-level, general-purpose, ...

Two key areas for improving Perl programming are achieving better support for Win32 and efficiently producing an executable version of your program. This article rounds up a couple of tips to ...

The programming forum is operating system agnostic, meaning if it has to do with programming it doesn't matter what operating system you're using.<BR><BR>And it's Perl, not PERL.

Perl 5.10, the first revamp of the quick-and-dirty open-source programming language project in five years, pilfers some features from Perl 6.

The authors of Programming Perl (O'Reilly 2000) and Perl Cookbook (O'Reilly 1998)--two of the most revered titles in the Perl universe--include Nigel Chapman's book in their list of recommended texts ...

Under a banner proclaiming the “Programming Republic of Perl,” Larry Wall delivered his State of the Onion address. The crowd ate it up. Wall is the principal author of Perl, a computer ...

I write Perl programs that use the Windows shell command dir. The dir command is built into cmd.exe and there is no dir.exe in the System folder.

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?

Perl 5.16 hit the streets last week, and upgrading is no longer a question of "what will break" but rather "how boring is this process?" ...

spider.pl is a program for fetching documnts from a web server, and outputs the documents to STDOUT in a special format designed to be read by Swish-e. The spider can index non-text documents such as ...