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 ...

Editors exist for all kinds of scripting needs—some free, some cheap, and some not-so-cheap. Use this guide to help you find the right product for your work. Scripting in Windows has taken different ...

The Perl programming language was first posted to the comp.sources.misc Usenet newsgroup by its creator Larry Wall on December 18, 1987. Now known as a family of high-level, general-purpose, ...

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

Scripting in Windows has taken different shapes over the years. Many administrators started by creating DOS batch files to help perform simple tasks repetitively and without errors. Today, ...

You may think of PERL as something for Unix gurus, but wise Windows administrators can also benefit from this powerful scripting language. So just what is PERL, and where did it come from? PERL stands ...