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Perl Advent Calendar Enters Its 17th Year (perladvent.org)
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Thursday brought this year's first new posts on the Perl Advent Calendar, a geeky tradition first started back in 2000. Friday's post described Santa's need for fast, efficient code, and the day that a Christmas miracle occurred during Santa's annual code review (involving the is_hashref subroutine from Perl's reference utility library). And for the last five years, the calendar has also had its own Twitter feed.
But in another corner of the North Pole, you can also unwrap the Perl 6 Advent Calendar, which this year celebrates the one-year anniversary of the official launch of Perl 6. Friday's post was by brian d foy, a writer on the classic Perl textbooks Learning Perl and Intermediate Perl (who's now also crowdfunding his next O'Reilly book, Learning Perl 6). foy's post talked about Perl 6's object hashes, while the calendar kicked off its new season Thursday with a discussion about creating Docker images using webhooks triggered by GitHub commits as an example of Perl 6's "whipupitude".
But in another corner of the North Pole, you can also unwrap the Perl 6 Advent Calendar, which this year celebrates the one-year anniversary of the official launch of Perl 6. Friday's post was by brian d foy, a writer on the classic Perl textbooks Learning Perl and Intermediate Perl (who's now also crowdfunding his next O'Reilly book, Learning Perl 6). foy's post talked about Perl 6's object hashes, while the calendar kicked off its new season Thursday with a discussion about creating Docker images using webhooks triggered by GitHub commits as an example of Perl 6's "whipupitude".
yep.
You might as well consider the whole thing a countdown to the release of Perl 6...
Where's the Trump angle?
I am disappoint.
It's a derivative story that has been edited several times over the centuries and there's no possibility that it ever happened.
Of all writings more than 1000 years old, the Gospels are some of the most numerous and best attested works.
Christianity is a zombie worshipping anti-sex death cult.
People certainly did not view Jairus' daughter or Lazarus as zombies, so why the Jesus hate? Plus, the only "real" zombies out there are the people on their cell phones.
It's not anti-sex. "Be fruitful and multiply" is pro-sex.
And I wish this holiday were kept as a religious one instead of a commercialized waste of time that was invented to get stupid people to spend more of their money on worthless crap.
It's actually European Hanukkah. Jesus would have been born late September/early October. Just as Passover looked back to death "passing over" Israel and forward to Jesus' sacrificial death on a cross; Hanukkah looks back to the cleansing of the temple and forward to Jesus cleansing a rebuilt temple.
Impressive, that 15 more than there are professional users. Keep it up, you two!
You are inside a building, a well house for a large spring.
There are some keys on the ground here.
There is a shiny brass lamp nearby.
There is tasty food here.
There is a bottle of water here.
<blink>down the rabbit hole</blink>
I was looking on slashdot for another enlightening news story of the most recent racist acts of president Donald Frump from a quality news source, such as the Huffington Post, or uproxx. To my dismay, I find a filler news story about some nobody blabbing about an obscure computer programming language, which nobody cares about. It must be a slow news day. Now this was a rare occurrance, which can be overlooked, but a trickle can turn into a flood, of Oberon, Haskell, x.org, or zsnes stories. I'm sure the editors of slashdot will fight to keep the quality of stories on slashdot up. Maybe slashdot should seek out a merger with Verizon, whom has a track record of managing of other quality internet properties.
You are inside the Democratic Party, a place of broken dreams.
There are some abandoned fireworks on the ground here.
There is a shiny brass collar nearby.
There are some tasty memes here.
There is a bottle of tears here.
<blink>down the rabbit hole</blink>
It was the first language I really learned in depth, and was seemingly built specifically for the tasks I worked on in those formative years.
Test automation, log / output parsing, HTTP / REST client, system administration scripts; Perl5 was the perfect level of abstraction for me, it's still my default pseudocode / mental model base when tackling problems.
The experience writing automation and admin scripts and apps made my current DevOps role a natural fit, we were doing a lot of the core principles before the term "DevOps" was even coined.
And doilies on the chair arm rests, this is what Perl feels like to me now.
It was the first language I really learned in depth
I wish there were more people who bothered to learn Perl in depth.
Or even just moderately well, so that they understand the principles behind the language. Perhaps there would be less hate around the language then.
(The 'baby perl' that many people write is terrible to read. You know, the stuff that fills 90 % of stackoverflow's Perl tag.)
Agree. I'm semi-retired now but still do a little freelance. A while ago, I worked for BBC, UK Amazon offshoot etc. all of whom were big Perl shops. It's 'unusual' probably because of Larry Wall's background but natural (Do what I mean) and concise but readable (unlike APL, for example). Those that complain that it's 'line noise' need to write comments (remember those?) use use perltidy more often. Meanwhile CPAN, if one is selective, gives a lot of extra productivity.
I went to the London Perl Workshop yesterday: http://act.yapc.eu/lpw2016/ great day out, good community and, as usual I learnt a lot. Will try Perl 6 for something small this year too. I understand that it looks alien and takes some getting used to, but it's a great language.
On y va, qui mal y pense!