Those familiar with the geekier side of the tech industry will probably be familiar with the many programming languages behind the world's most popular software. There's Java that's used for Android, ...

Let me get this out of the way up front: Perl isn’t a beautiful language. It’s kind of a mongrel pup with pedigreed academic roots: C, AWK, Lisp, Pascal, sed, and a bit of Smalltalk and C++ tossed in ...

The Perl language, which dates back to the 1980s, has hit an all-time low in the Tiobe language popularity index this month, dropping to 13th place. Ranked ninth in the Tiobe Index a year ago, Perl ...

Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for its rise is difficult to pinpoint. Last month, Perl’s gradual rise over the summer into the top 10 ...

Network admins can find themselves spread a bit thin during these times of remote work while trying to provide support for all users. Leveraging programming to automate common tasks may help. What ...

Nor are scripting languages any longer merely the tool used for quick-and-dirty patching (someone once called Perl the duct tape of the Internet, and it stuck so well that Perl lovers wear the label ...

More than 1.1 million people filed for unemployment last week, per the Labor Department's most recent report. This blew past economists' predictions of jobless claims under 1 million that would signal ...

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have one thing in common — they both taught themselves to code. Coding can be a very lucrative skill, and learning languages like Perl can ...

Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into interesting programming languages. In the past we have spoken to Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language, Don Syme, senior ...

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 constitutes ...

No, HTML is not a computer programming language. This may ruffle the feathers of web developers and graphic designers who take pride in the webpages they have built. Nevertheless, HTML is not a ...