Entries Tagged as 'perl'
Why People Are Passionate About Perl
brian d foy started this Perl meme with a few questions. I haven’t written much about Perl recently, so here’s a little more.
· The person who introduced me to Perl showed me that…
Actually no one introduced me to Perl, I learned about it on the internets in ‘94, maybe I discovered it at a Gopher [...]
MySQL, UTF8 and my sanity
I’ve never really had to do much with UTF-8, consequently my facility with it has been, shall we say… limited. Recently, though, I found myself needing to delve a bit deeper - it was surprisingly simple once I understood what was going on, but that understanding eluded me for many an hour. I called in [...]
PHP’s shareability brings all the boys to the yard
A short followup to my PHP post from a couple days back… It spawned some interesting comments that got me thinking some more on the subject. Another post I came across pointed out some other really interesting points about PHP’s architecture.
Both in the comments and on Ian’s blog they note that basically it isn’t the [...]
Lessons to be learned from PHP
SEE ALSO: PHP’s shareability brings all the boys to the yard
I’ve been reading this latest thread of posts around the net concerning Ruby and shared hosts, or equivalently, ease of installation. Here’s one. Here’s another. And I’m glad, for Ruby, that they are talking about this problem - I hope for their sake they take [...]
More love for Perl 6
I was pretty psyched to see some good news from the Perl 6 people. It seems like steam is really picking up on that end with Perl 6 actually having a compilable binary now and Parrot coming along. It’s interesting how Perl 6 is pulling some inspiration from Haskell amongst it’s many other influences and [...]
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What I like about perl
It keeps me warm at niiiight Is that it is very concise and expressive without telling me how things should be done. There’s no one true way in Perl as there are in some other more opinionated languages, it’s a pragmatic language that’s just trying to help you get things done - if you don’t [...]
Perl is Dead… or not.
You know ever since a brief shining moment in the mid-late 90’s when it was the language of choice for CGI scripting, it’s been “dieing” or “dead”. Perl’s dead, nobody’s using it. Everybody hates it, you can’t read it, you don’t know what you did 5 minutes after you wrote it, it’s the language everyone [...]
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8 CPAN modules I totally love
I spend a lot of my time in Perl land, you may not be surprised to find out. Over the years, there’s a bunch of odds and ends in the land of CPAN that I end up using a lot, that just make life that much easier. You know I’m all about an easy life, [...]
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On the ever impending demise of Perl
Scott (who has thankfully started blogging again) points out the new O’Reilly post showing the graph of technical book sales broken down by language.
Now among many other things this chart reveals that Ruby is way up in the ranks and perl (and surprisingly php, too) are down quite a bit. The chart is a comparison [...]
Ruby vs Perl Arrays
One thing that you take for granted in perl is the interchangeability of lists and Arrays. That is, when you want a list, you can easily use an Array type, you may have to dereference that mutha, but you’re going to be able to use it and use it very conveniently. So, if you’re trying [...]
