CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Descrambling DVDs just got even easier, thanks to a pair of MIT programmers.Using only seven lines of Perl code, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz have created the shortest-yet ...

A good programmer is a lazy programmer in the Perl world, and rather than have everyone ask you the same questions over and over again about your code, you produce documentation to go along with (and ...

The new concepts, syntax additions, and myriad changes in Perl 6 may create a barrier to widespread adoption, especially with the vast amount of existing Perl 5 code out in the world right now.

The Perl Foundation is in a shambles due to disputes concerning its (nonexistent) Code of Conduct, its (inconsistent) enforcement of community standards, and an inability to agree on what ...

Debugging is an annoying necessity in any language, whether it's debugging your own code or somebody else's that you've been given to make work on your system. Anything you can do to make debugging ...

It turns out there might be a closer connection between the two than you’d think, as a software engineer discovered that random paint splatters are actually valid Perl code in disguise.

Below is the perl code that prints count and lines from /etc/passwd.So if count 1=>001 if count 10 => 010, count 101 -> 101.Count is printed using pattern matching. Can this be done through ...

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.

Perliscope author traces style evolution Good reading makes for good writing; literary authors know that, and we programmers need to take more advantage of the opportunities before us. Perl ...