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The Top 10 Programming Tasks That Perl Is Used For
Suggestions, utilities and examples for the top ten common tasks you can accomplish more easily with Perl today.
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Why Use Custom Perl Environments? For Security, Compliance & Portability.
Custom Perl environments that contain the minimum set of dependencies for a project reduce vulnerability incidents, improve license compliance, and lower maintenance costs.
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Universal Package Managers? Meet the State Tool
Written in Go, the State Tool is designed to (ultimately) be a cross-platform, universal package manager for dynamic open source language runtimes.
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Goodbye PPM, Hello State Tool
Our Perl Package Manager (PPM) is being phased out as we move forward with a new and improved solution for Perl package management. With the release of ActivePerl 5.28, PPM is no longer supported; however, its functionality is being replaced by the ActiveState Platform and the State Tool.
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Text Manipulation with Perl (Pre-built Runtime)
Perl has often been called the swiss army knife of scripting languages, but one of the most common use cases…
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Dave Rolsky to Lead 4 Speaking Sessions at The Perl Conference 2018
The Perl Conference is taking place this summer from Sunday, June 17 through Friday, June 22. I’ll be there presenting…
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Rejoice! ActivePerl 5.26 Released, Plus 5.24 and 5.22 Updates
I’m pleased to announce that we have released today, not only the latest and greatest Perl 5 version to date,…
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Choosing the Right Programming Language for Your Enterprise
It’s becoming a common adage that every company is a tech company. As customer expectations have shifted in a “digital-first”…
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Code Recipes Now On Github – 5,000+ Recipes for Python, Perl, Ruby and More
For more than a decade, ActiveState has hosted a vast repository of code recipes and discussions over at https://code.activestate.com/ –…
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Upgrading Perl to a Modern Version: the ActiveState Guide
Thinking of upgrading? We highly recommend moving to Perl 5.32, which offers native support for virtual environments, built-in dependency management,…
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Good Things Come in Managed Packages
Package management is a significant issue in every programming language and the number of packages associated with each language is…
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