Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for its rise is difficult to pinpoint. Last month, Perl’s gradual rise over the summer into the top 10 ...

Feel free to light 25 candles today for “the duct tape of the Internet,” or if you prefer, “the Swiss Army chainsaw.” By either of its future nicknames, version 1.0 of the Perl programming language ...

Software that integrates Perl programming with the Apache Web server. It provides several features including the ability to access databases and use Perl in Apache modules and configuration files. CGI ...

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 ...

Nothing instills more fear in the average Perl programmer than working with XS, Perl's technology for interfacing with eXternal Subroutines in other languages, most notably C. Calling C libraries from ...