Hey Canadian nerds! I have held the domain registration for regex.ca for a very long time. When I lived in Canada it was my primary domain, but I haven't used it for years. Does anyone on the fediverse have a good use for it?
I'm going to release it but if you've got a good pitch I'll pay for a 1 year renewal and then transfer it to your ownership.
PS 1Gotta admit that the point about the object systems in R is somewhat spot on
PS 2 #php gets a dishonorable mention
PS3 I will continue to find ways to continue using all 4 of the aforementioned languages, as they are all performant and deliver in complementary ways.
There was some stuff I wasn't sure how to sanely do with #Ansible and thought I might have to resort to a #Perl script and the AI helped me get out of the weeds with the playbook.
@tripleo If you want decent integration with 3rd party stuff (google APIs, amazon, etc...) you may need to write your own client stuff as most big service providers seem to have forgotten that #Perl exists
@tripleo#Perl’s “sharp edges” are mainly early syntax and features that later experience with large and networked #programming found dangerous, but are preserved for backward (and we do mean “backward”) compatibility.
See the details of the strict and warnings pragmas, and successively missing items in feature bundles:
@tripleo I would also be remiss not to mention #Perl's included perltrap manual page, which notes both the strict and warnings pragmas and also has nice lists of things for those coming from other #programming languages and tools like #AWK, #C and #CPlusPlus, #JavaScript, #sed, and #shell.
@leonerd@tripleo I can only confirm this, even if currently FFI support does allow to bind #Perl to C/C++ quite easily. I find the general situation much better of other seasoned languages such as #Tcl or #Lisp, instead.
@tripleo You’re thinking of #Perl’s “taint mode” (stop your teenage giggling), where outside data is untrusted unless it’s the extracted subpattern match in a #RegularExpression.
@tripleo You could use #Perl's taint mode for web inputs, but that’s a big performance-reducing hammer affecting everything outside your program: command line arguments, environment variables, locale, file input, certain system calls, etc.. It also breaks many #CPAN modules, including popular web application frameworks.
There's no one-size-fits-all solution, so use whatever’s appropriate for your web input. Start with @owasp’s Top 10: https://OWASP.org/www-project-top-ten/
Hey, #perl devs. Do you use DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader? Do you also use Perl::Tidy? You can get disappointed if Perl::Tidy reformats the dbic files, so drop this in your .perltidyrc to stop that:
Ignore DBIC-generated content
--format-skipping-begin='#(<<<| DO NOT MODIFY THE FIRST PART OF THIS FILE)'
--format-skipping-end='#(>>>| DO NOT MODIFY THIS OR ANYTHING ABOVE!)'
I'm handling sponsorships for this year's Perl and Raku Conference. Please share this far and wide so that we can get as many new sponsors as possible. ❤️
Everyone! If your #business depends on #Perl or #RakuLang please consider supporting the communities you rely on!
One good way to ensure a sustainable future for #OpenSource ecosystems like these, is to support active and fertile venues for learning and teaching these technologies.
Right now, you can help by supporting the Perl and Raku Conference, and later this year, the London Perl Workshop.
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