An experiment by computer science researchers shows that Perl, a major commercial programming language, is no more intuitive to use than a fake language with a completely random syntax. What gives?

Mastering Perl/Tk is divided into two distinct sections. The first half of the book (chapters 1-13) covers the same material found in Learning Perl/Tk; in fact, several of the examples and text ...

For example, you cannot use the IndexOnly directive with the "prog" document source. This is by design to limit the overhead when using an external program for providing documents to swish; after all, ...

I write Perl programs that use the Windows shell command dir. The dir command is built into cmd.exe and there is no dir.exe in the System folder.

Under a banner proclaiming the “Programming Republic of Perl,” Larry Wall delivered his State of the Onion address. The crowd ate it up. Wall is the principal author of Perl, a computer ...