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Common Perl Criticisms Addressed
[2009-06-10] Most people know how to defend their favorite things. If you call BMWs unreliable, owners will gush about the driving experience. Say chocolate's fattening, and someone may quote studies about its positive effects on the heart. So here are a few reasons (and the main counterpoints) why some folks dislike Perl.
Iron Man Perl Blogging Challenge Begins
[2009-05-15] Type the term "Perl" into the Google Blog Search engine, and the odds seems good that you'll find the results a little disappointing. Perl just isn't discussed too much, which for Perl programmers, can be a shame. So a new contest called the Iron Man Perl Blogging Challenge aims to fix the problem.
Old-Fashioned Versus Newfangled Approaches To Perl
[2009-04-17] In many areas of life, there are distinct groups of people weighing tradition against innovation. Perl professionals sometimes split themselves along the same line, too, and one expert recently explored the relative merits of each side.
Apple Apologizes For Perl Snafu
[2009-04-03] Not long ago, we reported that a Mac OS X security update had affected some Perl scripts in an adverse way. Now, an Apple programmer has stepped forward to say "sorry" for the problem and talk about causes and resolutions.
Yet Another Perl Conference Details Released
[2009-03-17] Perl professionals who haven't already packed the June sections of their calendars full of activities might want to pay attention. More details concerning the Yet Another Perl Conference have been announced, and it's shaping up to be a really nice shindig.
Mac OS X Update Causes Perl Complications
[2009-02-27] Apple computers are extremely popular in some corners, and you won't find anything approaching an anti-Cupertino rant in this article. Just the same, Macs are known for having compatibility problems (try seeing how a hardcore gamer reacts to the suggestion he use one), and the latest Mac OS X security update can essentially break Perl.
TIOBE Index Puts Pearl In Eighth Place
[2009-02-03] The TIOBE Programming Community index for January 2009 has been released, and Perl fans should find the news to be mostly good. Perl remains among the top 10 programming languages, and its status "A" makes Perl officially part of the mainstream.
Perl News Now Way More Likely To Make Headlines
[2009-01-11] Some people would have you believe that achieving something is its own reward, with or without wider recognition. But we all understand that publicity can be nice (companies spend millions of dollars chasing it, after all), and members of the Perl community can now proudly know that their programming language is getting mentioned in widespread press releases.
Using Perl to Count Letter Occurrence in a Document
[2008-12-02] Hey I want a Perl script that reads a file and sends me the number of occurrences of the alphabets in that file... Could you please help me?
Perl 6 Progress Discussed
[2008-11-04] You may want to pull together some philosophy textbooks and a dictionary; all of them seem like useful resources in a new debate on whether or not Perl 6 is vaporware. Still, regardless of how you define Perl 6's existence, some interesting tidbits concerning its development were mentioned.
February Perl Conference Planned
[2008-10-21] Make no mistake about how cold things will be during this conference; we're talking about Minnesota in early February, and the daily lows and highs should be around 10 F and 30 F, respectively. But for the hearty and winter-loving individuals out there, Frozen Perl 2009 promises to be an interesting event.
Perltidy Offers Reformatting Help
[2008-10-03] Take a look at any car that's littered with empty coke bottles and mangled takeout bags. Or any desk that's covered with bent pieces of paper and a dozen redundancies in terms of office supplies. Being neat is so much better, and Perltidy aims to help Perl experts achieve that state.
Red Hat's Perl Problem Makes Waves
[2008-09-12] Whoops. Although Perl's not to blame, a problem involving it has come into the spotlight. Fingers are pointing at Red Hat over a screwup that made a Perl program run about 100 times slower than a user might reasonably expect.
Perl Fighting Fuddy-Duddy Image
[2008-08-20] The law won't allow corporations to discriminate against people due to their age. Programming languages aren't protected by any statutes, though, and it seems that Perl's maturity is sometimes being characterized as a bad thing.
Perl Project Started for Google App Engine
[2008-07-24] The Google App Engine currently supports Python, but now Google employee and creator of blogging community LiveJournal Brad Fitzpatrick posts this bit:
CPAN Touted As Perl High Point
[2008-06-25] It's easy to get lost in your own little programming world, focusing on one task after anther without regard for whatever else is going on. Here's a reminder, though, that the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, or CPAN, is a great resource.
Perl 5 Wiki Nearing 1,000-Page Mark
[2008-05-19] Wikipedia does an impressive job of drawing audiences; the number of unique visitors to the site has grown by something like 8,000 percent over the last five years. It turns out that the Perl 5 Wiki is growing, too, with the 1,000-page mark now within reach.
Amazon S3 Available From Perl
[2008-04-10] Some lines of Perl enable efficient reading and writing of data to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Perl Modules: Java's Little Helpers
[2008-03-12] Perl programmers who may have to add "Write once, run anywhere" to their knowledge of "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" can find modules to assist in working with Java.
Random Errors in Perl
[2008-02-08] There is a simple mistake I make frequently with random numbers. I'll use Perl to illustrate, but trust me: I can screw this up in just about any language. And I have...
Playing with Perl 5.10
[2008-01-14] While we were all busy getting ready for the holidays, version 5.10 of Perl appeared on CPAN.
Equal Height CSS Columns with Filler Text
[2007-12-03] If you search for "column alignment" or "css columns", you'll probably eventually end up at In search of the One True Layout at positioniseverything.net. That's great stuff, but it is not what I wanted.
Random Subroutines in Perl
[2007-11-15] I'll bet your first question might be "why on earth would I ever want to call subroutines randomly?".
Bouncing Around Perl On The Web
[2007-10-24] Once you have trounced the rest of the Perl class in Prisoner's Dilemma and are ready to take your skills into the field, it's good to know plenty of resources exist online.
Stripping out Bad Characters Generated By a Perl Shopping Cart
[2007-08-24] There is an interesting thread in the WebProWorld forum that solves a problem a member was having trying to strip bad characters from a block of text generated by his perl shopping cart.
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