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Historical note: the original coding advent calendar was the Perl Advent Calendar, started in 2000 and still going. https://perladvent.org/archives.html Advent of Code is awesome a…

I haven't seen frameworks in other languages rival mojolicious for rapid prototyping, web scraping, and good event-driven support. It's super easy to make websockets and even quick…

Lots of interesting comments about Perl's shortcomings here. I think it's safe to say both Ruby and Python became popular because they addressed this sentiment -- for instance, typ…

This is a _perfect_ case -- to get started, you can just put `shell` in front of every line #!/bin/bash echo hello change to #!/usr/bin/env perl6 shell "echo hello" then for argume…

"The winner is the one who gives the most away." -- Larry Wall Perl bookends the career of the author of this article, so respect pls

$ docker ps | rb drop 1 | rb -l split[1] $ docker ps | perl -anE 'say $F[1] if $.>1' perl solved this problem a long time ago, people