93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)

Post by yarcob » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 1:43 PM UTC

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #44

Macha wrote: post #32

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Almost certainly has been edited? Now I wonder what the original post was.

Nah. Wasn't edited, but it was definitely a slap at me, personally. I touched a nerve, and was reprimanded. It was not a "fun" response, and it made me realize that I had caused offense. Teh Internets tubes are a difficult landscape to navigate. It's almost impossible to write stuff without causing some offense. Some folks take that as an admonition to never write anything fun. Others (like me) learn to apologize. I'…

Post by hpcjoe » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 1:45 PM UTC

darrenf wrote: post #55

hpcjoe wrote: post #41

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For Perl use const name => value; Though ... I'm not sure why you'd need a "set" constant, as constants should be immutable, and set once ...

Nitpick: use constant name => value; Albeit `Const::Fast` might be considered preferable for several reasons (deeply readonly structures, variables which you can interpolate rather than barewords, etc).

  use constant true => (1==1);
  use constant false=> (1==0);

Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 1:48 PM UTC

peteretep wrote: post #57

LandR wrote: post #24

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Don't take attacks on a tool you like as an attack on you. This is rarely ever the intention, and I'm 100% certain wasn't the intention of the poster here. The tools you use shouldn't be your identity. Chill.

One person’s tool is another person’s livelihood, the corner stone of their professional experience, and the basis by which other people will (apparently) judge their technical expertise

Post by jschwartzi » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 1:50 PM UTC

qalmakka wrote: post #2

Sometimes I forget how insane Perl was before `use strict;` became commonplace.

Post by ahazred8ta » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 1:56 PM UTC

Demiurge wrote: post #46

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #5

That's a fun read. I once wrote an entire CMS in Perl. I still wake up, screaming, sometimes. [UPDATE] It appears as if my flippant remark caused upset. I am sincerely sorry that this was the case. No offense was meant. @peteretep, you have my sincere apology. It was a flippant remark. At the time I wrote it (mid-1990s), Perl was the best way to write portable server-side code. I took the time to learn it, and got fa…

I once wrote a vital satellite maneuver orchestration software, which had to parse various files and call models. Simultaneously the scariest and proudest moment in my career, but the alternative was Fortran or C.