Perl, Python, and Ruby are commonly used for CLI control and management scripts, and they offer a plethora of modules that can make all kinds of functions easier to develop.

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages ...

This story, “ You say Python, and I say Perl …,” was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Read more of Paul Venezia’s The Deep End blog at InfoWorld.com.

A common statement is that “Perl 6 is not Perl”, and it’s largely true, except in name. Unlike Python, though, there is no community consensus that Perl 5 needs to be retired.

I want to throw a quick program together to pase data from a flat file format into an XML structure. I'm curious on opinions if Python or Perl would be a better route to go for this. I've got ...

SlickEdit 2009 is a new version of the multi-platform code editor with support for 40 languages and seven platforms.

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 ...

The goal of this course is to provide an in-depth introduction to the Python programming language followed by an introduction to both the Perl and PHP. All of these languages share common ...

To make it easier for developers using Windows to create custom Python and Perl runtimes, ActiveState today announced enhancements to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering.