Scripting languages like PHP, Perl, and JavaScript are taking on programming heavyweights like Java and C, and taking many software developers with them. Find out how the toy languages and duct ...

Mac OS X provides rich scripting and automation tools that can simplify everyday tasks—if you know how to use them. The roster includes the venerable command line, the graphical Automator ...

Hi all. I'm trying to learn Perl CGI scripting (and the rest of Perl, too, as I go about it), but I'm hitting a problem that pretty much stumps me. What happens is that when I hit submit on the ...

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 ...

The Apple Developer Connection’s (ADC) Internet Developer site has published a new article with step-by-step instructions for installing Perl 5.8 on Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). The article also walks ...

VMware describes the Toolkit as "an easy-to-use Perl scripting interface to the VMware Infrastructure API (VI API). Administrators and developers who may be more familiar with Perl (rather than ...

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development -- no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...