perl

Perl has been around for more than 20 years.

LinuxCareer: rsnapshot is a backup tool written in Perl that utilizes rsync as its back-end.

IBM Developerworks: "Porting legacy Perl to Python can be a daunting task. In this article, learn some of the theory behind dealing with legacy code, including what not to do."

O'Reilly GMT: "We often hear people saying that Perl is dead. I assume that you don't agree, but what do you say to people who try to tell you that?"

Phil Windley has has a new startup, and he is documenting some of aspects of their design process (business and technical) on his blog.

For us the nice part is that he is building a DSL. Here is an explanation why building a DSL makes sense (not that we need one, over here, but still a nice analysis).

And here is a discussion of high order perl and parsing.

n my last article for Linux Journal's web edition, I discussed a web-based program that queried an SQL database and output a native Excel file.

That article was based on a program I wrote for a customer some time ago.

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A light hearted entry, but Ruby has featured quite significantly in the latest edition of the popular User Friendly comic strip series.

Unfortunately, a bearded Perl and Emacs fan gives Ruby the slap down, but what’s new?

On NicaLiving.com I brought up language translation issues.

(It has to do with Spanish/English, but for you geeks, just pretend it is about C++ or Perl or something.) My wife asked me what "The votes are in!" on the cover of the current LJ meant (in Spanish).

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