The Perl development team has announced the release of Perl 5.44, the first stable production version in the new 5.44 series, which follows about 12 months of development since Perl 5.42. The most ...

As in Raku (formerly Perl 6), they are marked with the prefix : before the sigil. This colon is not part of the variable name, and you must omit the sigil when calling. Named parameters do not require ...

A programming language is a set of symbols whose strings are governed by rules apt to communicate instructions to a particular machine. Such strings may be concatenated into longer code and implement ...

Registration is open for the RCS Spring 2026 Tutorials. Please also be aware that we have lots of recordings and slides available from past tutorials by RCS staff and vendors. For hands-on sessions ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

David has been lifelong fan of technology who loves putting his passion into words. A journalist by training, he discovered the power of Unix-like operating systems when learning how to edit video on ...

Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for its rise is difficult to pinpoint. Image: mstandret / Envato Last month, Perl’s gradual rise over ...

For the second time in six months, Perl has re-entered the Top 10 of the TIOBE index, causing people to ask why a language that seemed to have been sidelined for a long time is experiencing a ...

Resurgence may be due to Perl 5 now being viewed as the ‘real’ Perl after decades of confusion over Perl 6, Tiobe exec says. Perl, a once-popular programming language that dates back to 1987, has seen ...

Imperative programming is a software development paradigm where every step is implicitly coded to solve a problem. In imperative programming, every operation is coded and the code itself specifies how ...

Perl was once everywhere. Or at least it felt that way. Around the turn of the millennium, it seemed that almost every website was built on the back of this scripting language. It processed massive ...

Perl 5.42 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language that comes one year after the prior Perl 5.40 release. Perl 5.42 ships with Unicode 16.0 support, new ...