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RSS perl in newsMicrosoft extends relationship with ActiveState Tool
News Microsoft has hired ActiveState Tool to develop Perl scripts supporting the latest Windows features. Perl is an Open Source language, used for basic functions across the Internet. While ActiveState Tool... [04 Jun 1999]
Rebol simplifies Web scripting
News Rebol (Relative Expression-Based Object Language) is a network messaging language, which is said to be easier to use than C++, Java and Perl because it uses English "expressions". The creator of Perl,... [08 Oct 1998]
IT pros criminalised by CMA update?
News Clayton cited the Perl scripting language, created by Larry Wall in 1987, as an example of a useful technology that could fall foul of the law. He said: "Perl is almost universally used on a daily basis... [22 May 2006]
Royal Bank of Scotland opts for open source intranet
News He said: "A lot of banks are using applications like Apache and Perl but it's interesting to see they're using Python and Zope as it's moderately hardcore open source stuff. The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has revealed... [26 Jan 2006]
Spam: 'Happy' tenth birthday
News Hoping to drum up some business, Laurence Canter dashed off a Perl script that flooded online message boards with an advertisement pitching the legal services of Canter & Siegel, the law firm he ran with his then wife,... [14 Apr 2004]
Oracle adds Java to Application Server
News Still offering support for legacy applications - in languages including C++ and Perl - the company claims the system will bond databases and applications written in multiple languages. Oracle has outlined a roadmap for... [15 Apr 1999]
OO programmers are hot property
News HTML and Perl also were high on the list. Object-oriented (OO) languages are the most sought-after programming skills in the UK and Europe. Bloor Research analysed over 33,000 job advertisements posted on the Internet,... [14 Oct 1999]
Microsoft's .NET could turn virus victim
News The ability for the platform to understand programmes in different languages makes the threat from worms and trojans much greater, as many of these are written in other languages such as Perl and currently have no... [01 Oct 2001]
Lloyd's to underwrite open source
News A Lloyd's spokeswoman was unable to confirm details but St Clair said the insurance will initially cover the open source LAMP stack, which consists of the Linux operating system, the Apache web server, the MySQL database and the... [15 Aug 2005]
One $100 laptop rolls off the production line
News The site says: "There is still low-hanging fruit left to pull out of the image, including bitmap fonts we don't use (7MB), the X font server (1MB) and Perl (30MB). The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) crusade for low-cost PCs... [25 May 2006]
New Samba flaw compromises Linux servers
News The advisory has a link for a section of the website with security tools, one of which is a script written in the PERL programming language that quickly takes advantage of the security hole. The Samba Team released a... [08 Apr 2003]
Apple plugs 31 holes in OS X
News Apple's Security Update 2006-007 includes fixes for flaws in Apple's own code as well as third-party components that ship with the Mac OS X operating system, such as OpenSSL, Perl and PHP. Apple has released a security... [29 Nov 2006]
Open source fans get first major conferences
News The events will span a wide range of OSS' - developed by thousands of organisations and programmers over the Internet - including Apache, Linux, Perl and Sendmail. Open source software (OSS) was officially recognised by... [17 Nov 1998]
IT wages bounce back from three year decline
News Those that have significantly lost value over the last two years include Siebel, Perl, ActiveX and Windows XP. Domestic IT wages in Europe and the US have finally rebounded from three years of consecutive decline and... [01 Mar 2005]
Skills shortage at two-year low
News By contrast, demand for contractors with Extranet, Ingress, MFC, Object Oriented Architecture, Perl and Visual Basic skills continued to fall during the third quarter of the year - the fourth such consecutive drop. [26 Apr 2007]
