Computer Science professor Bob Fulkerson joins the show to discuss his BBS days including his stewardship of the Endless Forest BBS in Omaha. Bob also discusses facets of teaching Computer Science and his love for the Perl programming language. #bbsing#perl#python
@philsplace Good for you. Lotta folks out there breaking their brains against #bash and #GNU coreutils (all the world's a GNU / #Linux box, right?) scripting when they could uplift to #Perl.
Playing with VS Code in prep for tonight's presentation.
I think I had normalized on Perl Navigator as my module for Perl formatting, but I wanted another option, I think because I wanted to demonstrate default formatters for different workspaces.
But right now, no formatting works on in-Windows VS Code windows. Works fine on WSL and remote Linux.
Bash is a SHELL and isn't necessarily a programming language but can be pretty good. PERL was essentially created for system admin / automation and reporting. It is awesome at parsing log files and other sources, hence the nickname: Perfectly Eclectic Rubbish Lister
And don't laugh, but I do a lot of scripting (non web) work in PHP as well. #DevOps#PERL#PHP
Dear world, I need to hire someone expert in installing & configuring some open-source software on MacOS. Currently my blogging system breaks every time I type "brew upgrade" and I am out of patience. [EDIT: Problem solved.]
Tl;dr: I need to arrange that this 2-line Perl program works and survives updates:
use DBI;
use DBD::mysql;
Will pay an appropriate hourly rate. Private-message or email me.
it is perfectly possible to write absolute shit code in #rust or #haskell and it is perfectly possible to write excellent code in #javascript or #perl and shellscripts can be super awesome and lisp doesn't make you a better man and millions of businesses live just fine on mysql and php.
Making an alias so cpanm buidls always finds Homebrew include and lib dirs. Well, for MakeMaker anyway. Can't find the Module::Build equivalent to LIB= rn… #perl
I really like #rakulang, in theory, and would like to use it more, but whenever I have something to write, I still often end up with using #perl for it.
Just the latest example: I had to write a simple text-wrangling script that needed UUID generation. With Perl, I used App::Fatpacker to embed UUID::Tiny to make the script runnable just about anywhere without any extra dependencies, but there is nothing like that for Raku AFAIK and it just didn't seem worth it to do something more complicated.
Tried to use it on my second 💻 today, to no avail and much grinding of teeth.
I'm not setting up any more #venv . I'm fed up. I'm bloody rewriting everything, even libraries in #perl so it works proper on #unix damn it. And maybe throw a look at some #zig porting while at it.