Under a banner proclaiming the “Programming Republic of Perl,” Larry Wall delivered his State of the Onion address. The crowd ate it up. Wall is the principal author of Perl, a computer ...

spider.pl is a program for fetching documnts from a web server, and outputs the documents to STDOUT in a special format designed to be read by Swish-e. The spider can index non-text documents such as ...

Mastering Perl/Tk is divided into two distinct sections. The first half of the book (chapters 1-13) covers the same material found in Learning Perl/Tk; in fact, several of the examples and text ...

The fifth chapter covers management, and the examples show how to use ping and traceroute in a Perl script. It also shows how to used SNMP, with an example that monitors uptimes from a group of ...

An experiment by computer science researchers shows that Perl, a major commercial programming language, is no more intuitive to use than a fake language with a completely random syntax. What gives?