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 ...

The Parrot team has announced the release of Parrot 0.12. For those not familiar with the project, the Parrot project is a virtual machine designed to run dynamic languages like Perl, Python, Scheme, ...

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.

Since Solaris doesn't have GNU "date", Perl seems pretty much the only game in town, if I want to convert a static time stamp to the epoch time format. Given I'm not much of a Perl wizard, how do I ...

After many years of writing design verification automation scripts in Perl, we at Arrow Devices made a conscious decision to shift to Python, lock, stock and barrel. Scripting in Perl has multiple ...