Being a hired-gun developer, I inherit all kinds of client problems. Recently, I was tasked with exporting a delimited flat file from one application and formatting it so it could be imported into ...

in my first quest to learn about perl (I don't have a book yet, see my other thread), I've been doing some looking and have been trying to figure out how I could write a batch script that I have in ...

The Perl programming community had much to celebrate this year. Shortly after the millennium, along came the first major release of Perl since the middle of the last decade, when Perl 5 made its debut ...

I'm wrapping up the last of my classes at Western Governor's University. Almost all classes have used Java to teach OO concepts. One of my last classes is an intro to Perl. The (very little) research ...

Vera, “e,” Rave, Testbuilder, Cynlib-there are many specialized languages that can speed testbench development for HDL simulation. A small, quiet EDA company, GreenLight LLC, has another idea: Why not ...

Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for its rise is difficult to pinpoint.