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Slashdot (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Howling writes "I've been a PHP programmer for a few years and after taking a trip through many sites Ive learned that www.php.net is probably the most complete souce when looking for information/documentation. I have been trying to find similar sites for every other language (Java, perl or ASP, for instance) without equal success, though. I ask: what is the best documentation/reference site for your...
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/home/siddhi (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
CIO magazine has an article titled You Used THAT Programming Language to Write WHAT? They took five "scripting" languages — Ruby, Python, Javascript, PHP and Perl — and then get Zed Shaw , Martin Aspeli , Michael Morrison , Kenneth Hess and James Turner to write about what kind of applications the language is good for, and where you are better using another language. Check it out .
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LWN.net (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
InfoWorld's Neil McAllister investigates a bug with Perl's object instantiation on Red Hat Linux. " To make a long story short, he got rid of the Perl executable that came with his CentOS installation, compiled a new one from stock source code, and the bug disappeared. Clearly, the Perl hackers are blameless in this case. The fault lies squarely with Red Hat for distributing a buggy version of the...
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AterSlash (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
At the risk of starting a programming language holy war, can someone explain to me why someone would choose to start a new project in Perl instead of Python? From what I’ve seen, they both do essentially the same things in the same ways, and they’re both (roughly) the same as far as language overhead (from language interpretation) is concerned.
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Webware.com (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Google programmers are adding support for the Perl programming language to its App Engine service for hosting Web applications , but so far it's not really an official project. The work is the project of Google employee Brad Fitzpatrick, who disclosed the project on his blog Tuesday. But he's not a member of the App Engine team, and Google isn't promising Perl support, he said. By going public with...
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MaisonBisson.com (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
David Cloutman pointed to Craiglist’s job ads as an indicator of programming language popularity. Here’s the hit counts for “web design jobs” and “internet engineering jobs” in the Bay Area: PHP Java Ruby Python PERL internet engineering jobs 167 246 85 98 109 web design jobs 110 71 22 19 31 Cloutman has a few ideas for what the numbers mean, but I’m just entertained by the data. (Note: he corrected...
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Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
If you have ever used the Perl programming language then you have heard the name Larry Wall . But, you might not know that Larry Wall is an active member of the Church of the Nazarene (the " bless " function anyone?). According to the Religion in American Culture survey 63% of Nazarenes accept a literal interpretation of the Bible, as opposed to 46% of Ameican Protestants as a whole. James Dobson...
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www.devco.net (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
I have fallen out of love with Perl some time ago, I cannot point to one specific thing about it that put me off, I think it's just a general un-sexyness about it now. I have been doing some Java and PHP development that was very OOP heavy and have been doing OO coding since school in the Pascal 6 days, I find it's almost become the natural way of thinking when thinking about problems. OO though does...
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Matasano Chargen (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
A classic challenge for companies that build products on high-level languages like Perl, Python, PHP, and Ruby —- as well as .NET, and Java —- is that they are shipping their source code to their customers. Companies don’t like disclosing their source code. Language vendors want companies to use their stuff. And so we have [...]
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Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog (Free subscription) | 20/04/2008
PHP is not only a very competent web development language (and part of LAMP stack). It is also a very capable language for writing (command line) scripts. You can write simpler and cleaner scripts with php than perl. Here is a php code which takes a file name as input, trims whitespace from each line [...]
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Science and Tech headlines (Free subscription) | 18/04/2008
I was wondering what certifications are available for the following that are legitimate: mySQL SQL C C++ php Java perl ASP I'm looking to solidfy my resume while I take night classes to finish my Computer Science Degree.
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OS News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Norman Deppenbroek has ported NewLisp to Syllable Desktop. NewLisp is a variety of the Lisp programming language meant for scripting, with a friendlier syntax and a practical approach. Also, newer versions of Objective Caml (3.10.2) and PERL (5.10.0) were ported. Kelly Wilson got OCaml to supports PThreads on Syllable Desktop. The new PERL is adapted to the new system structure of Syllable 0.6.5 and...
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Bin-Blog (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
This is the next installment of the Hello Script series - Hello Script for Perl. ‘Hello Script’ is a file that contains the most commonly used elements of a programming language so that it can be used as a cheat sheet when working with that language. Introduction to Perl For those of who are unfamiliar with perl, [...]
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random($foo) (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
As you might have heard, Google AppEngine launched tonight, with Python as its initial (and only) programming language to interface with its services. I started switching over to Python (from Perl) a few years ago for general processing and daemon tasks (mostly for its sweet RPC bindings and its comprehensive, if still somewhat convoluted Unicode handling). Over time, as the libraries matured, I started...
