This is the most important point to note. While developing scripts, one can come across so many situations where one needs to develop new code/package for the script. For Chip industry, examples such ...

The future of Perl requires both visionaries and mechanics; one of the charms of Win32 Perl Scripting is that Roth manages to balance those roles in his own life and career.

The things you can do with a little script! A Wired reporter is telling the story of how a Perl script he wrote led to the arrest of an online sex offender. The magazine is set to release the ...

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 ...

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 that when I hit submit on the ...

Scripting languages like PHP, Perl, and JavaScript are taking on programming heavyweights like Java and C, and taking many software developers with them. Find out how the toy languages and duct ...

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where the languages were headed ...