arXiv, the preprint server that gave the world early access to the research behind modern artificial intelligence, formally left Cornell University on July 1, 2026, becoming arXiv, Inc. — an ...

What's the difference between Tomcat and Apache? It's a question developers hear frequently. But, when worded that way, it contains some misleading assumptions. Normally, when people ask this question ...

The test site this morning: SoylentNews (soylentnews.org) uses Slash, which is based on Perl and will turn 30 in less than 2 years. It was developed by the famous Rob Malda, who sold Slashdot. Kolie, ...

In the Mac stupid and/or cool thread I posted some AppleScript to fix an issue with the Safari web browser. Immediate comment: AppleScript sucks. No controversy there. I mentioned ARexx on the Amiga, ...

One thing that continues to annoy me is that if I say: I get an error. I'm sure that there are worlds where this makes sense, but why oh why make me spend cycles ...

Python still holds the top ranking in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, leading by more than 10 percentage points over second-place C. But Python’s popularity actually has ...

October’s TIOBE Index: 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. The October 2025 TIOBE Index saw a reshuffling ...

Python maintains its runaway top ranking in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, while older languages continue to rise. Perl surprises. Python, the highest-ranking language ever in the ...

Perl was once everywhere. Or at least it felt that way. Around the turn of the millennium, it seemed that almost every website was built on the back of this scripting language. It processed massive ...

Morgan Stanley is now aiming artificial intelligence at one of enterprise software’s biggest pain points, and one it said Big Tech hasn’t quite nailed yet: helping rewrite old, outdated code into ...