Perl News Desk

ActiveState announced the release of ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1001, the complete, ready-to-install Perl distribution for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and AIX. Today also marks the 20th Anniversary of Perl, introduced on December 18, 1987, by Larry Wall. Millions of developers worldwide rely on ActivePerl. Complete and ready-to-install, the free ActivePerl distribution includes core Perl, popular modules, the Perl Package Manager (PPM), and complete documentation. The ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1001 is available now. "We have been looking forward to this release of ActivePerl 5.10.0 for some time, and with the 20th Anniversary of Perl, the timing couldn't be better", says Jan Dubois, Senior Perl Developer at ActiveState "There are so many new features like the new swit... (more)

Telco Perl Powers Telephony With Linux

An announcement just out of Honolulu brings word that, at the Aculab communications exchange (ACE) in Hawaii, the wonderfully named SkunkWorks Australia has implemented Telco Perl in its Whirlwind telephony toolkit. "Combined with the Linux-based, telco-grade Whirlwind," says the official release, "Telco Perl brings the power, cost savings and flexibility of one of the world's most popula... (more)

ActiveState Announces Release of Faster, Smarter and More Powerful ActiveTcl 8.5

ActiveState announced the release of ActiveTcl 8.5, in conjunction with the official release by the Tcl Core Team of version 8.5.0 of the Tcl dynamic language and the Tk GUI toolkit. Over four years in development, this release is a major advance over earlier versions. Tcl is a very powerful but easy to learn dynamic programming language, suitable for a very wide range of uses, including ... (more)

Arbor Networks' Peakflow SP 5.0 Integrates Fingerprint Sharing

Arbor Networks has announced the availability of version 5.0 of Arbor Peakflow SP, the industry's leading network-wide infrastructure security and traffic-monitoring platform. The new Peakflow SP 5500 device nearly doubles the performance and scalability of the previous version. Peakflow SP now includes ATLAS-enabled fingerprint creation, alerting and mitigation; deeper visibility into t... (more)