draegtun

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by draegtun 13y ago
The best place to search (for Perl REPL's) is on CPAN - https://metacpan.org/search?q=repl The current grandaddy is Devel::REPL - https://metacpan.org/release/Devel-REPL The new kid on the block
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by draegtun 13y ago
Sigils are what make Perl standout, in syntax and behaviour, to (most) other languages so it would be silly to get rid of them! i.e. it's a differentiator to what is or isn't Perl.
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by draegtun 13y ago
re: refinements nomenclature... Rebol got there first though! - http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/datatypes/refinement.html Matz is known to like Rebol - https://twitter.com/matz_translated/
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A Better Syntax For Unit Tests(drdobbs.com)
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>why perl? Perl is very popular in India. Here's what Flipkart said in their blog post about HostDB: The first prototype was written in Python by Abhishek. Both Krishnan and I refuse to read Python and Krishnan rewrote the whole
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by draegtun 13y ago
The Perl script will be slower because there are some extra steps it's going through in that code. So it can be improved. First here is the base line (using my own transaction.list file): $ time awk '{ SUM+=$5 } END {printf &
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Lou Reed And The Problem With The Innovation Imperative(forbes.com)
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You can see these in dialects or domain specific languages (DSL). For eg. a cron scheduler Rebol dialect: at 18:30 do %batch.r at 10-Sep-2009/02:00 do %batch.r every minute do %job.r every month on #15 not [sat sun] do %job.r
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Doing It Wrong (web scraping HN with Rebol)(recoding.blogspot.in)
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by draegtun 13y ago
I've posted this before on HN (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=608927 ) use List::Enumerator qw/E/; my $fizzbuzz = E(1)->countup ->zip( E("&qu
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Indeed The Raven is a very good album. Who am I? (Tripitena's Song) from the album is an extremely beautiful & touching song about life & death which strikes a poignant note right now.
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Between Thought and Expression Lies A Lifetime [2011](blog.aweissman.com)
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Surprised but deeply heartened see this at top of HN. I'm a long time fan of Lou Reed and was extremely saddened when I heard of his passing earlier today. Good to know his music and life also had strong effect on other hackers. Be
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That comes from Perl (which was added at 5.12 however it originated from the Perl6 spec). See http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.0/pod/perlop.pod#Yad... And search for "yada" in the following l
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What's new in Unicode 7.0?(babelstone.blogspot.de)
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by draegtun 13y ago
Something similar is this blog post about using Selenium + Perl (and bit of GD) to create screenshots of all your website pages via its sitemap. A contact sheet for your website - http://techblog.babyl.ca/entry/contac
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I have to agree with some of the others here and say that not all of the above is very intuitive. In particular a[3, 5] . I would be expecting it to return elements 3 & 5 (shortcut to a[3] & a[5] ) instead of doing a length slic
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Why Don't You Use Tap?(dailyjs.com)
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Here's the video for this presentation: http://perltv.org/v/parsing-json-with-a-regex
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PDL 2.007 released (with 64bit platform support) [Perl Data Language](mailman.jach.hawaii.edu)
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Here's a couple of interesting Perl alternatives: my @files = map { IO::File->new($_->[0], $_->[1]) || die $! } ([shift, 'r'], [shift, 'w']); $files[1]->print( sort $files[0]->get
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In Rebol: Rebol [] files: map-each n system/options/args [to-file n] write/lines files/2 sort read/lines files/1
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Lola - The Local-Language Environment Manager(github.com)
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> Ruby still has some ugly stuff inherited from Perl (globals for regex results, or the use of unreadable "magical" globals such as $:) And Ruby also has some pretty stuff inherited from Perl like postfix statements & firs
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Snapchat hack secretly saves images using app(bbc.co.uk)
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UNIX is my IDE. perl5 is my VM. CPAN is my language. ref: http://shadow.cat/blog/matt-s-trout/but-i-cant-use-cpan/ | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=968757 NB. Though I think someone e
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by draegtun 13y ago
You might find Rebmu interesting, its a Rebol dialect designed for code golfing - https://github.com/hostilefork/rebmu Here's a fun(!) presentation of Rebmu given by Dr. Rebmuthalamonious Golfstanipetrovitch (!!)
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Unfortunately it's only available via WayBackMachine now but there was a fun Webapp in a 140 character tweet challenge back in the day (2009!) - http://web.archive.org/web/20111221094809/http://f05
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Here it is in Perl6: [+] ^6 Actually cheated slightly because ^6 creates list from 0..5 :) So correct match would be... [+] 1..5 Here's how you would do it in Io: list(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) reduce(+) In Rebol there isn&
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Heinz and Reckitt Benckiser replace Captcha words with interactive games(brandrepublic.com)
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