While Perl and Python are two different programming languages, Python has the ability to execute Perl scripts through a built in function. Since Perl and Python are designed for different ...

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.

Debugging: Use Perl’s built-in debugging tool with perl -d script.pl for troubleshooting. Conclusion Bash, Python, and Perl each bring unique strengths to the table. Bash is excellent for simple ...

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But compared to its rival Python, Perl has faded from popularity. What happened to the web’s most promising language?

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The latest edition of the widely used Vim text editor now supports both the Lua programming language as well as the latest versions of Python and Perl. Bram Moolenaar, the developer behind Vim ...