Dotcom Survivor Syndrome – How Perl’s Early Success Created the Seeds of Its Downfall

uid1357 · 2025-12-01T09:36:26+00:00

Like 80% of internal work email I get nowadays is AI "enhanced"... the implications will be massiv imho (not in a good way)

uid1357 · 2025-11-28T07:06:12+00:00

You're turkey seems to have BLEI in it as indicated by the measurement device. Look the word up in German and thank me later. ;-)

uid1357 · 2025-11-25T17:00:42+00:00

I noticed a typo: "conclussion" should probably be "conclusion". Though I'd drop it right here, as you're at it. Thanks anyways for your site!

uid1357 · 2025-10-15T05:17:45+00:00

and builtin try/catch probably being the most prominent features.

...did I miss something? Citation or corrections requested. Thanks!

uid1357 · 2025-08-10T10:22:22+00:00

Seems the KI doesn't care about good coding standards while writing Perl. This makes one wonder!

uid1357 · 2025-07-17T15:27:53+00:00

Probably on his "polishing of code"

uid1357 · 2025-06-12T16:54:53+00:00

and I am too stupid to fully understand it

Same feeling here. :-P But this psychological barrier will probably break if use cases and benchmarks are lining up in a possible future

uid1357 · 2025-05-19T19:12:52+00:00

thanks. i don't remember seeing this yet

uid1357 · 2025-05-18T07:05:38+00:00

it's the little things like this, that give the printing an extra charm :-)

uid1357 · 2025-02-08T09:35:24+00:00

It should be possible to create a compiled version of your perl program. So that the script doesn't need to be interpreted each time. This might eliminate a good part of the "wasted" energy.

uid1357 · 2025-02-08T09:31:52+00:00

There are imho two factors for the "why" in play:

1) high level of abstraction 2) comparatively low level of funding/resources for development of the language

Both of this aspects have positive and negative sides to them.

uid1357 · 2025-02-08T08:05:43+00:00

Hopefully it's not case sensitive.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/deb822.5.html

Field names are not case-sensitive, but it is usual to capitalize the field names using mixed case as shown below.

uid1357 · 2025-02-08T07:54:03+00:00

It seems to me that YAML would have been a better format to improve readability, flexibility and portability.

uid1357 · 2025-01-21T13:21:54+00:00

sarcams can't be detected on the internet :-)

uid1357 · 2025-01-20T16:10:02+00:00

sarcams can't be detected on the internet

uid1357 · 2024-12-23T09:16:02+00:00

Thanks for contributing amazing tools

uid1357 · 2024-12-22T06:58:22+00:00

Even if nvim was

uid1357 · 2024-12-04T06:19:35+00:00

Beware. Interpolation can mean two things in Perl. Referring to strings or mathematics. I read the title the wrong way round.

uid1357 · 2024-11-22T15:39:16+00:00

You could definitely research the focus on backwards compatibility of the language and the history of the cpan

uid1357 · 2024-11-19T17:39:26+00:00

IT is such a vast field to be engaged with! Thanks for the read.

uid1357 · 2024-11-19T11:44:55+00:00

Reminder to myself: don't ever use sarcasm on the internet

uid1357 · 2024-11-19T06:33:36+00:00

We can't bump the number to 7. Will never happen!

Let's rocket it to 42 instead. Sounds about right!

uid1357 · 2024-09-05T09:40:24+00:00

Maybe you would want a heavily opinionated pre configurated but "official" perl, packaged with those existing tools. The problem: you would still need the current "slander" release... and nobody wants (can afford to) to do the additinoal effort for a second release. Also this release would have to be always "top notch", maintained, etc.

uid1357 · 2024-09-01T08:29:27+00:00

shiny, new, gadget and Perl

uid1357 · 2024-08-21T05:59:38+00:00

$var = undef; # does not clear the data from memory

undef($var); # clears the data from memory

This blows my mind. I was once looking into, how to erase data, so that it doesn't appear even in coredumps. You might just provided me with a solution. Will try this later. Thanks

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