Being a hired-gun developer, I inherit all kinds of client problems. Recently, I was tasked with exporting a delimited flat file from one application and formatting it so it could be imported into ...

But I've been writing Perl programs since almost the beginning. Shell scripting can be tricky because there's bash and then there's sh and then again there's ksh. Lots of people think they are writing ...

Vera, “e,” Rave, Testbuilder, Cynlib-there are many specialized languages that can speed testbench development for HDL simulation. A small, quiet EDA company, GreenLight LLC, has another idea: Why not ...

I write Perl programs that use the Windows shell command dir. The dir command is built into cmd.exe and there is no dir.exe in the System folder. My colleagues use my Perl programs and some of them ...

Tons of tools and projects still make use of Perl, but PHP, Python, and Ruby have stolen its programming thunder Back then, I posited that Perl 6 might change things, put a new shine on an old warrior ...