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by perigrin 9mo ago
All of modern geology stands upon her work.
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by perigrin 1y ago
It's still considered an experimental feature, just as it was in 5.38.x. Also the linked documents aren't 100% reflective of what's been implemented so far, a better URL would probably be https://perldoc.pl/pe
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by perigrin 1y ago
I've been surprised. I have a coworker who has a deep industry knowledge but none of it was in Perl, he was reaching for ChatGPT a lot early on and while sometimes it wasn't how I would have written it it wasn't wrong. So I d
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by perigrin 1y ago
I mean at a minimum #moose on irc.perl.org … Which mst was a huge reason why irc.perl.org is still around.
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by perigrin 2y ago
I've been an engineering manager, I'm not sure that argument is as strong as you want it to be.
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by perigrin 3y ago
I'm not going to dispute the data, but I don't think it means what you're saying it does. Honestly, I think you've made the same mistake that most people make in this conversation and equating NPR to Public Radio. NPR is
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by perigrin 3y ago
Kinda more like War Games. Ender was more hacked _by_ the Formics in what he assumed was a game … not that it did them any good.
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by perigrin 4y ago
Knowing both of them, I pretty much guarantee you it is.
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by perigrin 5y ago
Wonder if you can connect with IRCCloud?
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by perigrin 5y ago
I actually find Go harder to work with JSON with for exactly those same reasons. With Go if I want to parse JSON into something I can call methods on, the JSON has to conform to something I can build a struct around. If the JSON is compli
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by perigrin 5y ago
CPAN was (at best) the second because it was based on CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTAN Also mod_php was more akin to FastCGI with the limited access it gave PHP to the Apa
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by perigrin 6y ago
Rowling's statement wasn't even explicitly true before the rise of transgender visibility. It excludes women who don't conform. I've lived with pre-menopausal women who didn't menstruate regularly and felt that they
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by perigrin 7y ago
That's not exactly fair to Raku. A more fair critique (and keeping with the theme of this thread) is that Raku is less focused on integrating with the Unix command line than it is on tool building putting it closer to Python than Perl(
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by perigrin 7y ago
It may be 9 miles but at the wrong time of day (e.g. when the sun is out) it could take you hours. I hate driving in LA.
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by perigrin 7y ago
Most of it's developers and advocates have moved on to other more popular languages is arguably true (in addition to JS/TS I see a lot of Perl devs moving to Go). I know I personally do very little Perl despite working on a team w
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by perigrin 7y ago
Not exactly true. The current lead maintainer for Perl 5 is in his mid 30s at a guess, a large chunk of us are between that and our early 50s. This puts most of us around a decade or two out from retirement. That said the Perl community doe
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by perigrin 7y ago
While it's true in human language that idiomatic expressions are a barrier to learners, they are also a means of enhancing communication between experienced users of the language. Take Jargon for example, I've not got deep experie
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by perigrin 7y ago
> Yet you have to know both versions of them all, and be able to recognize and understand both kinds when reading other people's code. You have to be able to understand that if it's a two character variable of all punctuation y
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by perigrin 7y ago
So I wanted backspace too, but thinking about it, even within the same sentence it would damage the purpose of freewriting which is to stop editing and get words flowing out of your head and into somewhere you can be objective about it late
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by perigrin 7y ago
There isn't one way to do it in Perl (EUMM, Module::Build, Module::Build::Tiny, Module::Install etc), we just tried to make sure that they all interoperated cleanly. And we have things like the Toolchain Summit to make an emphasis on t
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by perigrin 8y ago
I know for a fact that up until around 2006 the official US Treasury curve for one of the big financial reporting firms was created/maintained on an Excel spreadsheet that was one step away from becoming sentient and asking us if we wa
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by perigrin 8y ago
If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. /s
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by perigrin 8y ago
In addition to the other comments made here ... Task::Catalyst is right there after Plack and before Template (TT2). Rather than try to guess at the proper set of modules recommended by a subproject, if there was already a recommendation (i
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by perigrin 8y ago
It wasn’t always. Kind words were said and `!cpan` was switched early on.
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by perigrin 8y ago
To be fair this was just a search engine for the package archive. The archive, it’s several clients, and alternative search engine, are still doing fine.
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by perigrin 8y ago
10 year old legacy apps that no one has touched in 5 years were written after S.C.O was let go. 10 year old code in any language kinda sucks.
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by perigrin 8y ago
Yes. Because of a naming … inconsistency … several core developers and major CPAN contributes have moved the 5 into the name of the language. So Perl5 version 9.2 or Perl5 version 28.0-rc1. Because we are often quirky nostalgic humans we us
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by perigrin 8y ago
Not the origin but a decent definition can be found in http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2016/index.html
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by perigrin 8y ago
Odd number releases are dev releases, even number are production releases. After 5.12 or so releases became time-boxed so that there is a new even release every year around this time (hence 5.28.0-rc1 dropping now, and in a year 5.30.0 will
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by perigrin 8y ago
If you're gonna compare to 5.9.2 (a dev version) then the newest Perl 5 is 5.27.11 with 5.28.0-rc1 having dropped after this announcement. Doesn't change the relevance of your point but the internet is a pedantic place.

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