The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. Each month, we examine ...

在编程语言的世界里，潮起潮落再正常不过。某些语言在短短几年内从炙手可热跌入冷门角落，而也有一些“老兵”在沉寂多年后突然杀回榜单前列。例如在上月和本月 TIOBE 榜单上，都有一个意外主角出现在 Top 10——1987 年诞生的 Perl。

Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for its rise is difficult ...

Let me get this out of the way up front: Perl isn’t a beautiful language. It’s kind of a mongrel pup with pedigreed academic roots: C, AWK, Lisp, Pascal, sed, and a bit of Smalltalk and C++ tossed in ...

Nor are scripting languages any longer merely the tool used for quick-and-dirty patching (someone once called Perl the duct tape of the Internet, and it stuck so well that Perl lovers wear the label ...

The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform. Even the traditional Java and Microsoft languages have had to make room for ...