perlperson

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   by perlperson 10mo ago

   Historical note: the original coding advent calendar was the Perl Advent Calendar, started in 2000 and still going. https://perladvent.org/archives.html Advent of Code is awesome also of course -- and was certainly inspired
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   by perlperson 4y ago

   I haven't seen frameworks in other languages rival mojolicious for rapid prototyping, web scraping, and good event-driven support. It's super easy to make websockets and even quickly have unit tests. Mojolicious still has 0 exte
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   by perlperson 6y ago

   Lots of interesting comments about Perl's shortcomings here. I think it's safe to say both Ruby and Python became popular because they addressed this sentiment -- for instance, type "man ruby" and notice references to P
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   by perlperson 7y ago

   This is a _perfect_ case -- to get started, you can just put `shell` in front of every line #!/bin/bash echo hello change to #!/usr/bin/env perl6 shell "echo hello" then for arguments, t
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   by perlperson 8y ago

   "The winner is the one who gives the most away." -- Larry Wall Perl bookends the career of the author of this article, so respect pls
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   by perlperson 8y ago

   $ docker ps | rb drop 1 | rb -l split[1] $ docker ps | perl -anE 'say $F[1] if $.>1' perl solved this problem a long time ago, people