eiro

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   by eiro 4y ago

   Perl lost popularity when people were using windows, learnt programming with java, were scared by unix idioms, implicity, regexps, contexts and concepts like anonymous blocks you can map/filter with. nowadays everyone finally think tho
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   by eiro 6y ago

   is there a benefit over socat?
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   by eiro 6y ago

   i really like https://newsboat.org/ . very few keystrokes to remember, super fast, ~/.newsboat/urls is a simple file with 1 feed a line.
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   by eiro 7y ago

   it really feels like a sophisticated bad joke to me but i'm curious: any real world example ?
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   by eiro 7y ago

   true
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   by eiro 7y ago

   we waited for them since the very beginning of the millenium, i played with both and here is the difference: DNF is very desapointed and is not the revolution i expected. Perl6 is a game changer and push the idea of "scripting" wa
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   by eiro 7y ago

   yes because it's free, simple to extend, low bandwidth compliant. there are some problems people still want to solve (see https://ircv3.net/ and https://irc.com/ )