Some lines of Perl enable efficient reading and writing of data to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). The continued growth and adoption of web services places information online in ways that enable developers to tap the data all over the globe.
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.
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... To make it both easy and obvious, let's say we want to randomly choose one of three things.
While we were all busy getting ready for the holidays, version 5.10 of Perl appeared on CPAN.
That surprised me, because I thought the next Perl I'd see would be the dreaded Perl 6.
