(Update your PCRE if you don't have \b yet.
Offer void in sed which only offers -E,-r ERE.👎
Grep now has -w (word match) and -P PCRE.👍 #perl remains home of the most PCRE.)
Next month will be the 10th anniversary of #Perl v5.20, which added experimental signatures, postderef and key/value slices.
I've installed a copy of Perl v5.20 so that I can start testing my CPAN modules with the updated syntax. (I try to support Perl versions from the past ten years.)
It'll be refreshing not to write code like it's 1999.
Reminds me of years ago when a new developer (switching from C++ to #Perl) joined a team I was on. We asked him if he preferred #emacs or #vim. He replied, "nano."
TFW rewriting the clipboard manager from #Raku to #Perl saved 20 times of memory :blobfoxnotlikethis: The service does literally nothing most of the time waiting for an event and keeps all states in the file system and Rakudo still manages to eat up a whooping 168 MB of RAM :floofWoozy: I really like the language but its reference (and now also only) implementation’s performance (or lack thereof) really stops me from keep using it.
BTW, fun fact: if you chop a string in Raku and Perl then concatenate their results together you get the original one :ym_rofl:
@metacpan I’m sorry, but messages addressed to @Perl are no longer reposted to the 492 members of the Perl community that followed it on the #fediverse. There is no longer any point in tagging posts with that address as the owner of https://chirp.social shut it down at the end of February.
You should continue to use the #Perl hashtag, though!
@DrHyde@metacpan@perl I have been following @tag@relay.fedi.buzz for a while to see #Perl hashtagged posts that don’t otherwise make it to my #Mastodon instance.
Unfortunately, last September’s Mastodon 4.2.0 release broke the underlying #FediBuzz service’s basic methodology (which was a questionable kludge.) The latter’s developer, @astro, has been trying to adapt and support more traditional #ActivityPub#relay operation. I don’t know how that’s progressed over the past several months.
Most of the MetaCPAN core devs will be attending the Perl Toolchain Summit in Lisbon next month. We plan to get a lot of work done. There is still time to come on board as a sponsor.
Update Debian machine
It now has Python 3.11
The IRC bot running on this server now fails to start
And this is why I love #Perl more than I will ever be able to love #Python. Especially in the 3.x series, Python stuff just breaks randomly after some updates. Its ridiculous how unreliable it is.
Ever been staying at a hotel and gotten annoyed that you always have to open a browser to log in for wireless access? Yup, me too. A recent instance was particularly frustrating and I had to pull out my favourite Swiss Army chainsaw in order to make my life a bit easier.
@chessert Apparently not everyone was as tuned in as you were. At #Perl v5.10’s introduction I agreed with https://mastodon.social/@gruber/112125241870511100 that given and when sure looked nice and readable, and the smartmatch ~~ magic was inspired by what was then optimistically called #Perl6, so it had to be okay, right?
I never got around to doing enough git blame code archaeology to determine Patient Zero while I was at that doomed company that went all-in.
All four of the Digital Eclipse Arcade games are discounted as part of the Steam Spring Sale -- satisfying single-screen throwbacks that play great on Steam Deck as well as home arcade cabinets. Get the bundle for 20% off:
We cover "scripting" vs. "programming" vs. software engineering, choosing the right tool for the job, extol the virtues of #perl's taint checking, lambast "clever" code, and frequently refer to F. Brooks and the Mythical Man-Month. (Yes, we could spend a whole semester on this topic, too.)