The things you can do with a little script! A Wired reporter is telling the story of how a Perl script he wrote led to the arrest of an online sex offender. The magazine is set to release the ...

I call my script, derived from many Perl command examples that I’ve encountered on the web, “listen”.

The future of Perl requires both visionaries and mechanics; one of the charms of Win32 Perl Scripting is that Roth manages to balance those roles in his own life and career.

Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.” But at least you can tell it was made by humans.