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You could use https://metacpan.org/pod/Amazon::Dash::Button https://metacpan.org/pod/Amazon::Dash::Button, and write your own handler in Perl using an ordinary

• Rjevski 9y ago
  But why would you ever use such an awkward language to do this task?
  • tyingq 9y ago
    Perl is actually not a bad choice for matching a Mac address, and invoking some external event. Why would it be awkward?
    • Rjevski 9y ago
      Well it's more about the language being needlessly complicated and having 10x different ways to do the same thing, not to mention the language (Perl 5 that is - 6 is a different story) lacks essential concepts like object orientation and exceptions (you have to get "shims" like Moose or Try::Tiny from CPAN to fill those gaps). Why would you choose something like this instead of Python or Ruby?
      • tyingq 9y ago
        >lacks essential concepts like object orientation and exceptions Perl does OO without Moose. There is a tiny bit of boilerplate, but it's essentially bless() and 1 or 2 lines in the constructor. Try/catch blocks are indeed an add on. The traditional pattern is more golang like, returning an error code, then using Carp or similar for stack traces. >Why would you choose something like this instead of Python or Ruby? That might be an interesting discussion for a large codebase, but for something limited in scope like this, I just don't see the problem.