Perl News Desk

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 popular application programming languages to telecommunications resellers and systems integrators for the first time." SkunkWorks is spearheading the use of Telco Perl - Perl has endless flexibility and communicates with a long list of legacy systems such as databases, communications gateways and Web servers, as well as providing reporting and graphics - in preference to the proprietary languag... (more)

ActiveState Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Perl with Release of ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1001

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 P... (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)