Python is great because it includes an interactive mode for learning the language and quickly testing out code ideas. IPython ...

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 ...

A common statement is that “Perl 6 is not Perl”, and it’s largely true, except in name. Unlike Python, though, there is no community consensus that Perl 5 needs to be retired.

Many of the features of Perl 6 are designed with eventual optimization in mind, such as compact native storage, hyperoperators that can map easily to a GPU or vector processor, concurrency ...

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.

Python vs. Anaconda: Physical features Both species are among the largest snakes on Earth, but the anaconda is generally shorter, thicker, and heavier than the python.

To make it easier for developers using Windows to create custom Python and Perl runtimes, ActiveState today announced enhancements to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering.

SlickEdit 2009 is a new version of the multi-platform code editor with support for 40 languages and seven platforms.

But compared to its rival Python, Perl has faded from popularity. What happened to the web’s most promising language?

The latest edition of the widely used Vim text editor now supports both the Lua programming language as well as the latest versions of Python and Perl. Bram Moolenaar, the developer behind Vim ...