The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published an early draft of HTML 5, a major revision of the markup language used for the Web.

The “International Web Standards Body” is creating HTML 5 to be open and royalty-free specification for creating rich web contents and web applications. The body is said to be operating in public with nearly five hundred participants, including representatives from W3C Members ACCESS, Apple, AOL, IBM, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Nokia, and Opera. The following W3C Members are said to be helping to shape the HTML 5 specification: BEA Systems, Inc.; Betfair Limited; Boeing; Cisco; Disruptive Innovations; Dreamlab Technologies AG; France Telecom; Hewlett-Packard; IWA-HWG; Mitsue-Links Co., Ltd.; mTLD Top Level Domain Limited; Openwave Systems Inc.; Oxford Brookes University; PicoForms; Queensland University of Technology; Stanford University; University of Innsbruck; and the U.S. Library of Congress.

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PERL which stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language was developed in December 1987 by Larry Wall while working as a programmer in Unisys. From the official website of PERL, “Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language. It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors and is widely used to program web applications of all needs.”

As PERL turns 20, their website has announced the release of PERL version 5.10 which available free from http://www.perl.org

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