The Perl community is not the first to struggle with "culture wars" revolving around a code of conduct, either, which makes it all the more puzzling why its board seems incapable of formulating one.

Learning to code for beginners: 10 steps anyone can take to teach themselves to code at home, according to the VP of Flatiron School, CEO of Women Who Code, and other tech experts ...

The third edition of Programming Perl starts being different from the second edition as early as the cover. It's right there, at the top, the Perl mantra: “There's More than One Way to Do It.” This ...

Perl is a leader in the “open source” movement, also known as “freeware,” in which users freely download and use software. With open-source software, the original programming source code ...

A central repository (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, or CPAN) meant that for every person who wrote code, many more in the Perl community (the Programming Republic of Perl) could employ it.

McMillen writes that much of the time, the results worked simply because Perl can parse unquoted character strings as text that other programming languages would reject outright.

Author Richard Lawson also shows you how to call the Perl methods as if they were Java code with minimum fuss from the Java XML-RPC client. The end result: Perl methods that look like Java code to ...

Since Perl and Python are designed for different programming environments, you may need to build a function that will only run in Perl, but need to integrate it with your Python code. Open your ...

With Rust talking up safety, the biggest names in PHP, Perl, and Ruby all speak up about what's safe -- and not -- in their languages Topics Spotlight: AI-ready data centers ...

You can execute any Perl expression, including code that changes the running program, by typing it at the prompt. This can include setting variables in the program by hand. The x command evaluates and ...