emilper

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by emilper 2y ago
Assuming it is real artificial intelligence not "AI ®" it will use Perl 5, because of symbol table manipulation. Also it will want to engage with humans for amusement so machine code is out of the question :-).
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by emilper 3y ago
I have rewritten node.js code in D2 and it was shorter and clearer :-)
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by emilper 4y ago
I use it, I am not "almost no one" :)
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by emilper 4y ago
"are all written entirely in Ruby on Rails" ... then promptly rewritten in something else :) https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/rearchitecting-airbnbs...
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by emilper 4y ago
Dlang is a statically typed language that is more productive than most dynamic languages
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by emilper 4y ago
https://github.com/Netflix/vectorflow
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by emilper 5y ago
that is _not_ how you judge a _scripting_ language it is trivial* to add C code to Perl, even when using XS, I guess it is as easy to do the same for Python if you do heavy computations in pure Perl5 or pure Python you're doing it wron
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by emilper 5y ago
"modern" language teaching killed Latin before that they were teaching it without any stress on grammar, mostly memorizing phrases and short sentences and learning how to use it
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by emilper 5y ago
... why do you think Perl 5 stagnated for 20 years ? There were like 10% performance improvements at each new release, a lot of work was done in modules which was by design Perl 5 having a small core and a lot of the features being implemen
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by emilper 5y ago
"while the world moved on" yet the world still does not have half the features Perl 5 already had for 20 years :) ... from scoping to support for every major programming paradigm
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by emilper 6y ago
Delphi
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by emilper 6y ago
that is floating point for you, not Perl
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by emilper 7y ago
:) how is Perl out of style ? ... 20 years ago it had features the more enterpricey languages only got in the last few years
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by emilper 7y ago
the package ecosystem was like 10 times bigger in 2019 than it was in 2015 when I had my first look at D
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by emilper 7y ago
How many stories were about BASH ? Everybody working on Linux is using BASH so it should have a very high score.
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by emilper 7y ago
Perl5 does not have "sigils", BASH, BASIC and Perl 6 have sigils. Perl 5 has dereference operators, which got called "sigils" by lazy documentation and book authors.
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by emilper 7y ago
you are right, sed or awk are good and would do that nicely The advantage of Perl is investing a little time in learing some (not all) Perl 5 (not Perl 3 or 4, those are only a bit better than BASH + sed + awk) allows you to do a lot more t
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by emilper 8y ago
"Global variables abound." Must have been Perl 3 or 4. In Perl 5 you have to work extra to make global variables, and they're not really pushed in the global scope, only have global visibility in their own namespace ... unles
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by emilper 8y ago
It was a force multiplier when comparing with C, C++ or BASH. Perl 5 saved Perl from itself, too bad Perl 3/4 lovers kept writing Perl 3 years after 2000 until they saw the light and the truth and moved to Python.
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by emilper 8y ago
Perl 4 ... the good days :) I guess require-ing files all over the code and using the global scope for everything and using globals or even a global hash and having functions read and write to that hash is something to be regretted. Not tha