At least one of you was a little miffed at something I said in last week’s post about dynamic languages and virtual machines, and there was probably more than one of you, so I thought it would only be ...

Last week I dug into a fairly sensitive topic in some circles: the decline in Perl’s popularity in favor of other languages. I received the expected response from Perl diehards, which essentially ...

In the older days of open source software, major projects tended to have their Benevolent Dictators For Life who made all the final decisions, and some mature projects still operate that way. Guido ...

Builder AU recently caught up with Australian Perl guru Damian Conway to talk about Perl 6, his reasons for choosing Perl over other languages, PHP, and the upcoming Open Source Developers Conference ...