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Wednesday Geek Woman: Audrey Tang ( 唐鳳), Perl hacker | Geek Feminism Blog(geekfeminism.org)
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Make disposable web servers for testing(effectiveperlprogramming.com)
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by draegtun 15y ago
Also Perl5 has multimethods via a Moose extension: https://metacpan.org/module/MooseX::MultiMethods
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Variable length look-behind in regular expressions(oylenshpeegul.typepad.com)
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by draegtun 15y ago
Not much to see at moment :) And especially if you don't speak Japanese! NB. Google Translate does a pretty good job though it does often screw up the code a little bit. Thought it was interesting to see the quantity and diversity. And
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(Programming) Advent Calendars: Big in Japan(weblog.bulknews.net)
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by draegtun 15y ago
I came across this Io ( http://www.iolanguage.com ) Heroku buildpack a few days ago: https://github.com/freeformz/heroku-buildpack-io Disclaimer: I haven't tested it (I'm not a Heroku user... yet!).
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by draegtun 15y ago
> having to maintain decade-old Perl written in a variety of different styles was maddening. Interesting... I wonder how many languages can still run a decade old program? This shows both the strength and weakness of Perl in that...
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by draegtun 15y ago
That is a shame :( Still good news is that after this event there's likely to be more in the future :)
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by draegtun 15y ago
> so the community and leadership focused on identifying and promoting idioms. I think that's a key factor in adoption. Perl had some of that (and the excellent "Effective Perl" had a chapter on it), but you need to make it part of you
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JQuery UK Conference - Oxford 2012(events.jquery.org)
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by draegtun 15y ago
All languages are ageing languages so i think a better term to use would be mature languages . That conjures up a completely different emotion :) > Don't get me wrong: Java, C#, C++ are maybe not aging but their user base isn't gro
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by draegtun 15y ago
Ditto and also got this for: Perl - 363 jobs. PHP - 769 jobs. C++ - 814 jobs. Java - 1,000+ jobs C# - 1,000+ jobs
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Little Clouds for Free: ActiveState commits to a free Stackato Micro Cloud(activestate.com)
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Bionic contact lens 'to project emails before eyes'(bbc.co.uk)
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by draegtun 15y ago
Shame you didn't do a Show HN because it looks interesting/promising so thanks for pointing me to it. In return I can give you a clickable link :) http://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile/
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by draegtun 15y ago
There was a discussion on the related blog post for this last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3234791
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by draegtun 15y ago
Totally agree. While it's good to always review your tools & skills... spending lots of time looking at sparkling new things could be better focused on i) getting work done or ii) improving your proficiency with current tools :)
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by draegtun 15y ago
I'm also a developer who still does sysadmin on the side (and probably far too much for my liking!) and I always write my scripts in Perl or bash. And from what i've seen and anecdotally this still seems to be the common case (Java & Pe
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by draegtun 15y ago
While they don't all work on the core, development on each perl release is very healthy. From Perl 5.14.0 release delta: Perl 5.14.0 represents one year of development since Perl 5.12.0 and contains nearly 550,000 lines of changes across n
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by draegtun 15y ago
And also there is: * CPAN Forum - http://cpanforum.com/ * Annotated CPAN - http://www.annocpan.org/ * Discussion/review on pre CPAN modules - http://prepan.org/
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by draegtun 15y ago
The author originally posted this article on his blog a few days before this one. If you ignore the trolling then there are some interesting comments on what Perl offers today: http://jjnapiorkowski.typepad.com/modern-perl/2011/10/why-
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by draegtun 15y ago
In map , $_ is a localised reference. Thus it doesn't clobber $_ my @array = qw/one two three/; $_ = "Hello"; say; map { tr/a-z/A-Z/ } @array; say; prints.... Hello Hello However remember it's a reference
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Salman Rushdie claims victory in Facebook name battle(bbc.co.uk)
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Track your professional stats like a pro athlete to give your resume power(petdance.com)
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by draegtun 15y ago
This is how macros should always have been. I don't know of any other language which does this They look very similar to Perl6 macros. See recent discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3124920
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Malicious app penetrates iTunes store to test security(bbc.co.uk)
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Thesis: simple - antythesis: easy - synthesis: ... | Agile & Rich Hickey(perlalchemy.blogspot.com)
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TDD Best Practices in Perl(showmetheco.de)
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by draegtun 15y ago
This is because most of their intranet apps will only work in IE6, and they have the size to demand that their supplies support IE6 too. Corporate IT policy won't allow browsers apart from IE. And this also seems to be the common case whe

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