Although this may actually belong in the programming forum, I figure that more Slackware users will see it here and maybe use it and/or improve upon it (I'm not exactly a programmer, but am just able ...

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 ...

While other scripting languages have gained popularity, Perl remains a popular choice due to its robust text processing ...

Every programming language has its strengths...and its weaknesses. We identify five tasks for which perl is ideally suited, and four that...well, really, shouldn't you choose something else? We all ...

IT之家 9 月 11 日消息，TIOBE 编程社区指数是一个衡量编程语言受欢迎程度的指标，评判的依据来自世界范围内的工程师、课程、供应商及搜索引擎，目前 TIOBE 官网公布了 2025 年 9 月的编程语言排行榜，IT之家整理如下： TIOBE 的 CEO Paul Jansen 表示，本月沉寂多年的 ...

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 ...

I was given the task of finding out what's wrong with a Perl script. Basically, after upgrading to a new version of Perl the script takes around 45 seconds to 'compile' before execution. The "new" ...

Most of our beloved tools, such as Slic3r, Cura or KISSlicer, offer scripting interfaces that help a great deal if your existing 3D printing toolchain has yet to learn how to produce decent results ...

In the post-genomic era, with an ever-increasing amount of sequence information, it is critical to develop tools that assist in sifting through all the data to identify information amidst the noise.