A bit late but always a fun read! Larry's annual review of the state of Perl. This year, компютри втора употребаLarry discusses the past, present, and future of scripting. Enjoy!

Google Labs has a tool called Code Search which allows you search through source code. It can search inside tars, zips, and even dives into CVS and Subversion repositories. Ben Orenstein did a search for comments which yielded onto phone ringtonesfree mp3 ringtones makernokia 3360 free ringtonesfree ringtones for nokia ...

Almost on the 20th Birthday of Perl, Perl 5.10 is released. This release is the first major upgrade to the language in 5 years. Two of the major new features are the smartWenn Sie ein kleines Paar von der späten Texas Holdem Position internet poker und Sie plumpsen nicht drittes, ...

No, that's not a typo. You knew it was going to have to happen, but the interesting thing about this story is that it was the BBC who built it. Read their blog for more details.

A recent thread on the Raleigh PM list asked whether Perl was dead because his company was having problem finding talent. One of the many responses included a link to the TIOBE Programming Community Index. Check it out at http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm.

A recent post at PerlBuzz.com shows that Perl is anything but dead in the marketplace. The graph, built on Dice.com data, shows that Perl jobs are 2.5 times more prevalent than PHP, 4.5 times more than Python and 9.5 times more than Ruby. Long live Perl!

If you missed YAPC in Houston and OSCON in Portland, you have a chance to catch another Open Source conference right here in our own backyard. RubyConf 2007 will be held Nov 2-4 at the Omni Charlotte Hotel. Tickets are $250 (more than YAPC but less than OSCON).

The Perl Survey is an attempt to capture a picture of the Perl community in all its diversity. No matter what sort of Perl programmer you are, we'd love to hear from you. The survey can be found at: http://perlsurvey.org It only takes about 5 minutes to complete. The survey will be ...

If you missed YAPC::2007, you can view the presentation materials online via the YAPC::2007 wiki presentation page. At the time of this writing, presentations are still being uploaded so you may want to check back over time.Photos from the conference are also online, hosting in Randal Schwartz's Flickr account.  Be ...

RegExps Rx: A Regex Debugger for Perl - http://perl.plover.com/Rx/paper/ The Regex Coach - http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/ Articles Enterprise Perl - http://www.whoot.org/talks/eperl.pdf Perl for Large Projects - http://www.whoot.org/talks/93kloc.pdf What Is Pseudocode? - http://perl.about.com/od/beginningperl/a/072604.htm Perl Command-Line Options - http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/09/commandline.html Online Books Mason Book - http://www.masonbook.com/ Beginning Perl - http://learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/ Impatient Perl - http://www.perl.org/books/impatient-perl/ Extreme Perl - http://www.extremeperl.org/bk/home Picking Up Perl - http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/perl/index.html Other User Groups Charlotte SPIN (Software Process ...