The Perl Foundation is in a shambles due to disputes concerning its (nonexistent) Code of Conduct, its (inconsistent) enforcement of community standards, and an inability to agree on what constitutes ...

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 ...

Two key areas for improving Perl programming are achieving better support for Win32 and efficiently producing an executable version of your program. Here, we've rounded up a couple of tips to address ...

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 ...

Perl is a language often associated with text processing and CGI. PHP is a language often associated with dynamic Web pages. Both are very popular with Web developers. Often, each of these languages ...

Debugging is an annoying necessity in any language, whether it's debugging your own code or somebody else's that you've been given to make work on your system. Anything you can do to make debugging ...

Perl was my first love, and it will always hold a special place in my heart. Sad to hear about the community, and how blatant racism isn't seen as intolerable. I don't understand how race and sex even ...