In the older days of open source software, major projects tended to have their Benevolent Dictators For Life who made all the final decisions, and some mature projects still operate that way. Guido ...

The Parrot team has announced the release of Parrot 0.12. For those not familiar with the project, the Parrot project is a virtual machine designed to run dynamic languages like Perl, Python, Scheme, ...

At least one of you was a little miffed at something I said in last week’s post about dynamic languages and virtual machines, and there was probably more than one of you, so I thought it would only be ...

In an interview, the Perl founder says a long-awaited and feature-packed upgrade to the language will appear in December Despite criticisms such as it having a “cryptic syntax,” the Perl language has ...

In his annual “State of the Onion” speech at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), Perl creator Larry Wall hinted that the long-awaited version 6 of the Perl programming language might finally ...