Scripting language comparisons  Aug 17 2011

An extensive side-by-side reference sheet of four scripting languages (PHP, Python, Perl, and Ruby) with which you can compare how the different languages handle variable declarations, concatenations, objects, and hundreds of other things. Great cheatsheet for learning a new language when you're already familar with one of the others.

I was telling a friend this weekend  May 07 2007

I was telling a friend this weekend about an article I'd read long ago about Larry Wall approaching the development of Perl as if it were a natural language. I think this is the article in question. Perl, the first postmodern computer language and a conversation with Larry Wall also touch on Perl and linguistics.

Update: Here's the original post to comp.lang.perl.misc by Wall. (thx, marc)

Perl one-liner for checking if a number  Mar 20 2007

Perl one-liner for checking if a number is prime. (via daringfireball)