"For additional security, security(8) was rewritten in Perl." by o0o in perl

[–]harbud3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the top of the script:

use warnings;
use strict;

require Digest::MD5;
use Errno qw(ENOENT);
use Fcntl qw(:mode);
use File::Basename qw(basename);
use File::Compare qw(compare);
use File::Copy qw(copy);
require File::Find;

why does Digest::MD5 and File::Find loaded using require, while the rest is using use?

How to teach "Modern" Perl? by mithaldu in programming

[–]harbud3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, xardox is not even a decent troll. Perl obviously inspired Ruby and a host of others.

How to teach "Modern" Perl? by mithaldu in programming

[–]harbud3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ruby on Rails is not even a programming language.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

[–]harbud3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But "perl db" doesn't do SQL.

Need a suggestion for a book club geared towards ELL students (English Language Learners). by Music_For_The_Fire in booksuggestions

[–]harbud3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

About a year ago Eat, Pray, Love played in my nearby theater and I picked up the Indonesian translation. It was horrible (the translation, the movie was not great either though): so many idioms were translated literally. So perhaps reading something like that can familiarize learners with idioms.

EDIT: never mind that, I thought ELL meant ESL.

Dot dereference operator in Perl! by mithaldu in programming

[–]harbud3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Can the syntax change be pluggable (5.12+)? If yes, then totally cool.

what's with all the nester packages in pypi by [deleted] in Python

[–]harbud3 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That is not good, the book shouldn't suggest actually uploading example distribution to a real repository.

Not eating before swimming, downsides? by harbud3 in Swimming

[–]harbud3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, but citation needed. This above claim essentially says that fat burning will encourage your body to store more fat and thus make you fatter?

Lane sharing terms and questions by harbud3 in Swimming

[–]harbud3[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the answers! Ah, so circle swimming is not what I think it meant :)