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 ...

Every programming language has its strengths...and its weaknesses. We identify five tasks for which perl is ideally suited, and four that...well, really, shouldn't you choose something else? We all ...

As more and more Web sites begin using XML for their content, it's increasingly important for Web developers to know how to parse XML data and convert it into different formats. That's where the Perl ...

But I've been writing Perl programs since almost the beginning. Shell scripting can be tricky because there's bash and then there's sh and then again there's ksh. Lots of people think they are writing ...

A number of options are available for Perl developers who want to reduce the amount of work and tedium involved in writing Perl CGI scripts that interact with a database server. Some of these ...

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 ...

Tons of tools and projects still make use of Perl, but PHP, Python, and Ruby have stolen its programming thunder Back then, I posited that Perl 6 might change things, put a new shine on an old warrior ...