At least one of you was a little miffed at something I said in last week’s post about dynamic languages and virtual machines, and there was probably more than one of you, so I thought it would only be ...

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 ...

In his annual “State of the Onion” speech at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), Perl creator Larry Wall hinted that the long-awaited version 6 of the Perl programming language might finally ...

Ok, it looks like I'm going to make the jump from academic programming to the business world in the next month. This entails a language switch, from C to Perl. I'm familiar with scripting and Perl ...

In his annual "State of the Onion" speech at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), Perl creator Larry Wall hinted that the long-awaited version 6 of the Perl programming language might finally ...