The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. Each month, we examine ...

Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for its rise is difficult ...

在编程语言的世界里，潮起潮落再正常不过。某些语言在短短几年内从炙手可热跌入冷门角落，而也有一些“老兵”在沉寂多年后突然杀回榜单前列。例如在上月和本月 TIOBE 榜单上，都有一个意外主角出现在 Top 10——1987 年诞生的 Perl。

Let me get this out of the way up front: Perl isn’t a beautiful language. It’s kind of a mongrel pup with pedigreed academic roots: C, AWK, Lisp, Pascal, sed, and a bit of Smalltalk and C++ tossed in ...

Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into interesting programming languages. In the past we have spoken to Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language, Don Syme, senior ...