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Hmm, why did the author use Perl for convsion if they didn't know it? Besides of regex (which is everywhere albeit in different dialects), I don't think Perl knowledge gives you very much nowadays.
Not as much as APL, but, still, I can write Perl code I will not be able to understand the following week.
This is awesome. I was just doing a deep dive on some forgotten C64 hardware (the PowerPad: https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Chalk+Board+In... ) and love how many people are still hacking on these machines, they're so durable.
Another computer that has a well thought out set of graphic characters is the Sharp MZ series. The best part is that it’s all part of Unicode now and a lot of terminals and fonts support them.
Another computer that has a well thought out set of graphic characters is the Sharp MZ series. The best part is that it’s all part of Unicode now and a lot of terminals and fonts support them.
Where in Unicode, do you know?
Hmm, why did the author use Perl for convsion if they didn't know it? Besides of regex (which is everywhere albeit in different dialects), I don't think Perl knowledge gives you very much nowadays.
Perl is ubiquitous (installed on virtually every Linux system) and has had excellent backwards compatibility for decades. It’s hard to beat in that combined metric.