While Perl and Python are two different programming languages, Python has the ability to execute Perl scripts through a built in function. Since Perl and Python are designed for different programming ...

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

Java is down a bit while Python continues to shine in this month’s Tiobe language index, which measures popularity based on language searches in search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and YouTube.

I want to throw a quick program together to pase data from a flat file format into an XML structure. I'm curious on opinions if Python or Perl would be a better route to go for this. I've got ...

SlickEdit has announced the release of SlickEdit 2009, a new version of their multi-platform code editor. SlickEdit 2009 costs $300. SlickEdit is a multi-language code editor that lets programmers ...

Perl, Python, and Ruby modules can ease development for large projects, but Bash is simpler and better for many tasks Last week I talked a bit about how best to protect against the vagaries of human ...

Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987. Version 1.0 released to the comp.sources.misc Usenet newsgroup on December 18, 1987. Originally the only documentation for Perl was a single man ...