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 ...

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

The goal of this course is to provide an in-depth introduction to the Python programming language followed by an introduction to both the Perl and PHP. All of these languages share common ...

Python still leads despite a dip to 24.45%. C edges past C++ for #2; Java holds #4. SQL returns to the top 10 as Perl drops out.

After many years of writing design verification automation scripts in Perl, we at Arrow Devices made a conscious decision to shift to Python, lock, stock and barrel. Scripting in Perl has multiple ...