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by davorg 10mo ago
Let's not forget that Perl 6 was announced because Perl 5 usage was already stagnating. Perl 6 was supposed to fix that problem. But it ended up making it worse.
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by davorg 10mo ago
> The backwards incompatibility of Perl 6 absolutely killed Perl. I think the backwards incompatibility was a minor issue compared to how long it took for Perl 6 to be released. It was eighteen years from the announcement to the first (j
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Modern CSS Daily(modern-css.davecross.co.uk)
1 points by davorg 1y ago|1 comments
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by davorg 1y ago
I want to teach myself modern CSS. Other people might find it useful too.
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by davorg 2y ago
> The whole thing was written in perl 4 style OO Perl What does that mean? Perl's basic OO support (using blessed hash references) was introduced with Perl 5 in 1994. I have no idea how anyone would even attempt writing OO code in P
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GitHub Actions Essentials(actions.davecross.co.uk)
2 points by davorg 3y ago|1 comments
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by davorg 3y ago
I wrote the book that I wish had been available when I started using GitHub Actions
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by davorg 4y ago
Hey, it worked for the COBOL crowd 25 years ago :-)
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by davorg 4y ago
> I think this was because Perl's early success in the 90s was based on CGI.pm, not frameworks. Exactly, the second wave of dotcom software was largely written using frameworks that built on the mistakes we'd been making in the
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by davorg 4y ago
> Perl never had this kind of traction afaik - yes many scripts were written on Perl but not many .com companies were based on it. Were you around for the first (pre-2000) dotcom boom? From where I was sitting (freelancing in London) it
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by davorg 4y ago
I'm semi-retired. I have a part-time contract maintaining a system I worked on a few years ago and I pick up other bits of freelance work from time to time. And I've been prototyping a few project ideas (in Perl) to see if any of
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by davorg 4y ago
> The ecosystem is also pretty much dead, it's not unusual to find bugs in packages where the issue tracker hasn't been responded to in 10 years, and the issue for the bug you're interested in has been languishing for lite
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by davorg 4y ago
Speaking as a London-based freelancer specialising in Perl, I can tell you that the number of companies developing new systems in Perl is tiny (like, maybe, half a dozen). Until four or five years ago, there was still plenty of maintenance
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What Happened to Perl 7?(blogs.perl.org)
249 points by davorg 4y ago|237 comments
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Making Taint support optional in Perl(blogs.perl.org)
1 points by davorg 5y ago|0 comments
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by davorg 6y ago
Historically, it was the Perl web site for a long time. It was registered by Tom Christiansen in 1994 and soon afterwards, he let O'Reilly run it - and they used it to post useful Perl news and articles for a long time. But O'Re
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by davorg 6y ago
It was supposed to be some kind of link-up between Perl 5 and Perl 6.
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by davorg 6y ago
I wish :-)
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The Unix Filter Model: What, Why and How?(dev.to)
1 points by davorg 6y ago|0 comments
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Professional Programmer is Professional(medium.com)
2 points by davorg 8y ago|0 comments
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by davorg 8y ago
I wouldn't really describe it as an ebook. It's just the PDF that Manning made back in 2001 when the book was published. I'm getting reports that the PDF looks horrible in various Linux PDF readers. I'll see what I can d
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Tau Station's Tech Stat – Cultured Perl(medium.com)
2 points by davorg 10y ago|0 comments
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by davorg 11y ago
> Actually Matt's stuff DOESN'T use CGI.pm Yes. That's the point I was making.
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by davorg 11y ago
> Well file a bug, I guess. That's not going to fix Centos 6 and 7 - both of which are mainstream in the web hosting industry right now. And I've had this conversation with the Red Hat Perl packagers. They can't see the pr
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by davorg 11y ago
That was a conversation that was finished 18 months ago. I'm not sure that anything can be gained by rehashing it. The best we can do is deal with the consequences. The discussion is at http://www.nntp.perl.org/group&#x
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by davorg 11y ago
It's not nonsense. That is what they do. And, yes, it's easy enough to fix that (pointing that out was one of the main points of my article). But we're talking about low-end web hosting services where the web site owners don&
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by davorg 11y ago
Yes. And I mention both of those commands in the article. The point is that the standard perl RPM does not contain everything that you would expect to see in a Perl installation. And whilst I agree that it is simple enough to fix that situa
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by davorg 11y ago
The really galling thing is that Matt's scripts will continue to work find in this post-CGI world. The nms versions were written to the best practices of 2000 and therefore need CGI.pm.
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The Long Death of CGI.pm(perlhacks.com)
33 points by davorg 11y ago|34 comments
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Build RPMs of CPAN Modules(perlhacks.com)
1 points by davorg 11y ago|0 comments

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