doomvox

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by doomvox 4y ago
> Perl 7 there was a mutiny by jealous and bitter collaborators Look, I hate to harsh on Sawyer X-- he's done a bunch of good stuff for perl over the years, and I hope to see him around again-- but his Perl 7 push was just a mess.
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by doomvox 4y ago
If you use -E rather than -e you get some new features turned on by default, notably you can use "say" instead of "print".
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by doomvox 4y ago
Since doomacs and spacemacs, the vi folks have discovered org-mode and stopped fighting.
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by doomvox 4y ago
Perl has a fast, powerful well-integrated regular expression engine, with full unicode support. In general, Perl tends to be much faster than the competing scripting languages (which is why you never see people talk about benchmark numbers,
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by doomvox 4y ago
> it falls massively short when it comes to anything concurrent or async Perl has some decent CPAN modules for handling multi-process applications-- it is true that it's very weak for threaded applications. (Raku on the other hand h
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by doomvox 4y ago
> no, there's been quite a few. Yes, most of them relatively minor though, which is why the OP has never stumbled across one. (I found one once-- it turned out one coder had invented his own hash slice syntax. It wasn't suppos
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by doomvox 4y ago
> That butterfly was the worst. Agree completely. Larry Wall is pretty brilliant, but he shouldn't be doing graphics design. Actually, I tend to dislike cutsey-poo cartoon icons, in general. If you want to pick an animal totem, th
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by doomvox 4y ago
I think quite a few people are confused by the line about it becoming Perl 7 "sometime in the future". I think it is unlikely that that is the distant future, myself. I think the main hang-up is they'd like to get the new
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by doomvox 4y ago
> It should be easy to always stay on the latest language version With perl you can upgrade your language version whenever you like, and do it reasonably safely, because there's a lot of emphasis on backwards compatibility. Perl may
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by doomvox 4y ago
> Perl devs would be in a better situation with a "fiasco" like that. Well, the hang-up in the roll out of "Perl 6" (now, Raku) gave people ammunition to shout about how "Perl is dead", but the central troub
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by doomvox 4y ago
> the Editions system lets people keep older syntax in source code Perl 'features' are lexically scoped, and could be applied in a finer-grained style, if you like. Shutting something off locally is done pretty commonly (e.g.
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by doomvox 4y ago
We're still reading the text of a speech from 1999, which would seem to say something in its favor. Dated pop-culture references in something that's ~25 years old is hardly surprising.
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by doomvox 4y ago
"... but wherever I interfaced with people writing/maintaining Perl code, it was the most hastily thrown together crap" The badly written stuff needs more "maintenance", and the people who need to work on it are mor
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by doomvox 4y ago
Maybe you're thinking of slashdot.
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by doomvox 4y ago
Well, Larry Wall's latest project was called "Perl 6" but has been renamed "Raku"-- in belated recognition that it really is a new language, and Perl is going to continue being Perl. The main reason to learn Raku at
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by doomvox 4y ago
Well, there's certainly a deprecation cycle in play, and some things may be on their way out that I would rather see kept around (e.g. they seem to have given up on getting the case statement-- given/when-- working: it's toug
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by doomvox 4y ago
"But unfortunately, some Perl devs in recent years keep thinking that what they need to do is break stuff to 'modernize'. They keep eyeing goals like turning `strict` on by default, and eliminating lesser-used features ...&qu
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by doomvox 5y ago
https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
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by doomvox 5y ago
Don't know exactly who you mean, but while sawyer x has stepped down recently, the dev team seems to be in good shape-- they've adopted the steering committee idea, and are using an informal RFC process to make decisions about new
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by doomvox 5y ago
Adultfriendfinder, cams...
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by doomvox 5y ago
During the crazed bubble 1.0 days, and the word is it got re-written in C++ soon afterwards.
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by doomvox 5y ago
Douglas Crockford, "Javascript: The Good Parts" (2008): "But it turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking