Okay, something finally snapped and it's time to give up Perl and learn a better scripting language. The two that I have under consideration are Ruby and Python although other suggestions are welcome.

But which one will give you the most bang for your buck? Even if you’re learning how to code free online, it’s an investment of your time. You want to be sure you’re learning the language that will be ...

The market is a bit defensive,” TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen said, noting people cling to the familiar top 20 programming languages. Popularity consolidated in the top 20 programming languages in ...

The Ruby language has been around since 1995 and still gets regular releases. But the language has dropped to 30th place in this month’s Tiobe index of language popularity, with Python cited as a ...

The Tiobe index author isn't convinced these are long-term gains, though, pointing out earlier high rankings that have since faltered Compared to their positions a year ago, Ruby, Assembly, Python, ...

So I want to learn to code by doing an unofficial (until it rocks -- -- ) side project at work, converting our parts and testing "database" and excel spreadsheet to Postgresql. Naturally I'll want an ...