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.
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. ❤️
install.pl: Installs artifacts where they need to go in the system.
build.pl was the most complicated, but that's not saying much, it was incredibly easy to make and it's small. It even supports parallel jobs and not rebuilding an object if the source file is older than the object.
Anyone here have experience updating a Dockerized Perl application? Specifically I am looking for help upgrading the app from 5.26 to 5.30 and how to rectify errors where some libraries (I think?) were built for Perl 5.26 and won't work under 5.30?
Started reading ‘Modern Perl’ on the train to work the other day. #Perl was the first programming language I learned, 20 years ago now, but I’ve hardly used it in probably 15 years now.
Not yet sure what I’d use it for, though. Better shell scripts? I’d normally choose Python/Ruby for that.
A weird thing about being 50 is that there are programming languages that I've used regularly for longer than some of the software developers I work with have been alive. I first wrote BASIC code in the 1980s. The first time I wrote an expression evaluator--a fairly standard programming puzzle or homework--was in 1990. I wrote it in Pascal for an undergraduate homework assignment. I first wrote perl in the early 1990s, when it was still perl 4.036 (5.38.2 now). I first wrote java in 1995-ish, when it was still java 1.0 (1.21 now). I first wrote scala, which I still use for most things today, in 2013-ish, when it was still scala 2.8 (3.4.0 now). At various times I've been "fluent" in 8086 assembly, BASIC, C, Pascal, perl, python, java, scala; and passable in LISP/Scheme, Prolog, old school Mathematica, (early days) Objective C, matlab/octave, and R. I've written a few lines of Fortran and more than a few lines of COBOL that I ran in a production system once. I could probably write a bit of Haskell if pressed but for some reason I really dislike its syntax so I've never been enthusiastic about learning it well. I've experimented with Clean, Flix, Curry, Unison, Factor, and Joy and learned bits and pieces of each of those. I'm trying to decide whether I should try learning Idris, Agda, and/or Lean. I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting a few languages. Bit of 6502 assembly long ago. Bit of Unix/Linux shell scripting languages (old enough to have lived and breathed tcsh before switching to bash; I use fish now mostly).
When I say passable: in graduate school I wrote a Prolog interpreter in java (including parsing source code or REPL input), within which I could run the classic examples like append or (very simple) symbolic differentiation/integration. As an undergraduate I wrote a Mathematica program to solve the word recognition problem for context-free formal languages. But I'd need some study time to be able to write these languages again.
I don't know what the hell prompted me to reminisce about programming languages. I hope it doesn't come off as a humblebrag but rather like old guy spinning yarns. I think I've been through so many because I'm never quite happy with any one of them and because I've had a varied career that started when I was pretty young.
I guess I'm also half hoping to find people on here who have similar interests so I'm going to riddle this post with hashtags:
Once upon a time, I used to take an active part in the #CPAN Pull Request Challenge (and later in the Pull Request Club). When addresssing Perl::Critic violations in my assignment for the month, one violation which tended to crop up often was stringy eval. Generally, this is something to be avoided. But how? In the post below I discuss recommended best practices and some other options.
Whatever happened to Perl? Back in the day it was wildly popular and was used all over the place. Then there was supposed to be a big rewrite for Perl 6 and that's the last I've ever heard of it. No news, no releases, nothing. For me Python came in and ate Perl's lunch, so I don't miss it at all. Python is better in every way for me. Honestly Perl was a horrible language, but still interesting to see it die so suddenly.