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 ...

Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987. Version 1.0 released to the comp.sources.misc Usenet newsgroup on December 18, 1987. Originally the only documentation for Perl was a single man ...

You may think of PERL as something for Unix gurus, but wise Windows administrators can also benefit from this powerful scripting language. So just what is PERL, and where did it come from? PERL stands ...

1987: The first version of the Perl programming language is released. Perl was the brainchild of Larry Wall, a programmer at Unisys, who borrowed from existing languages, especially C, to create a ...

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

I'd like to try my hand at Perl. I have some experience with VBScript and PHP. What's a good starter book? I think I'd be doing mostly scripting in Active Directory environments and Apache web servers ...

Hi all. I'm trying to learn Perl CGI scripting (and the rest of Perl, too, as I go about it), but I'm hitting a problem that pretty much stumps me. What happens is ...

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 ...