gfldex

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by gfldex 8mo ago
I was under the impression that the whole reason of blackmaling is funding. No?
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by gfldex 2y ago
> What good is perl in 2024. Making Debian possible. Allegedly, the German banking system is held together by Perl scripts. Which is good. Perl got 0 bitrot. And you don't want your bank account to rot, do you?
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by gfldex 2y ago
$ cat ~/.signature -- raku -e 'try { not :2(.fear) } and do not die' perl -e 'do not $fear and do not die' raku -e 'say „The Road to Wisdom“; $*ERR and $*ERR and $*ERR but Less and Less
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by gfldex 3y ago
Scroll down in the weekly until you hit the Mastatdon links at: https://rakudoweekly.blog/2023/12/04/2023-49-venting-this-ad...
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by gfldex 3y ago
For the placenta to be able to sustain a fetus, the oxygen concentration in air must not drop below 17% (for humans that have adepted to the Andes and Himalayas). That is way higher then the 13% we need to breath. Also, almost all forrests
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by gfldex 5y ago
As a sister language of Perl, Raku can do the same trick. constant &s = (now.DateTime.day-of-week == 7) ?? sub () {} !! sub (|) {}; constant c = s(42); Constants are evaluated at compile time. Here we define a sub that take
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by gfldex 5y ago
The best dollar bills are printed in North Korea. Forgery (but not fraut) becomes the default with crypto. You can create money without a government charter. However, it is to expensive for the forger to make a profit. With fiat book money
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by gfldex 5y ago
alternative alternative: do *² for 1..5;
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by gfldex 7y ago
I gave this a shot in Perl 6 as can be found at https://gist.github.com/8a58c3af3520e127fe7852d834e5e0fa I build a very simple^1 non-balancing binary tree and skip any insertation that would reproduce a duplication. Since t
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by gfldex 10y ago
About a decade ago many educators where looking for a language to teach programming to utter noobs because governments where scared by the year 2000 bug and asked them to produce more programmers (the latter part is a lie but it sounds nice
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by gfldex 10y ago
fixed with https://github.com/perl6/doc/commit/d1fe150239 The lack of feedback from actual language users did slow down Perl 6 development and esp. getting all the holes in the docs plugged.
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by gfldex 10y ago
https://docs.perl6.org/type/Str#(Cool)_method_IO leads you to: https://docs.perl6.org/type/IO$COLON$COLONPath leads you to: https://docs.perl6.org/type/IO$COLON$COLONPath#(Coo
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by gfldex 10y ago
[0] http://perl6intro.com/ The start page of https://docs.perl6.org/ is not referring there is a bug indeed. It will be fixed in a day or two.
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by gfldex 10y ago
[0] http://perl6intro.com/