I've been trying for 1.5 hours now to figure out how to use a debugger in #Perl and am reminded once again that this entire language is an enormous fucking garbage fire, especially considering documentation.
Computer Science professor Bob Fulkerson joins the show to discuss his BBS days including his stewardship of the Endless Forest BBS in Omaha. Bob also discusses facets of teaching Computer Science and his love for the Perl programming language. #bbsing#perl#python
@philsplace Good for you. Lotta folks out there breaking their brains against #bash and #GNU coreutils (all the world's a GNU / #Linux box, right?) scripting when they could uplift to #Perl.
Playing with VS Code in prep for tonight's presentation.
I think I had normalized on Perl Navigator as my module for Perl formatting, but I wanted another option, I think because I wanted to demonstrate default formatters for different workspaces.
But right now, no formatting works on in-Windows VS Code windows. Works fine on WSL and remote Linux.
Bash is a SHELL and isn't necessarily a programming language but can be pretty good. PERL was essentially created for system admin / automation and reporting. It is awesome at parsing log files and other sources, hence the nickname: Perfectly Eclectic Rubbish Lister
And don't laugh, but I do a lot of scripting (non web) work in PHP as well. #DevOps#PERL#PHP
Dear world, I need to hire someone expert in installing & configuring some open-source software on MacOS. Currently my blogging system breaks every time I type "brew upgrade" and I am out of patience. [EDIT: Problem solved.]
Tl;dr: I need to arrange that this 2-line Perl program works and survives updates:
use DBI;
use DBD::mysql;
Will pay an appropriate hourly rate. Private-message or email me.
it is perfectly possible to write absolute shit code in #rust or #haskell and it is perfectly possible to write excellent code in #javascript or #perl and shellscripts can be super awesome and lisp doesn't make you a better man and millions of businesses live just fine on mysql and php.
Making an alias so cpanm buidls always finds Homebrew include and lib dirs. Well, for MakeMaker anyway. Can't find the Module::Build equivalent to LIB= rn… #perl