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Are the words "strict" and "warnings" too negative? in Meditations
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by Anonymous Monk
on Sep 03, 2019 at 15:56
    #!/usr/bin/perl # # Q: Are the words "strict" and "warnings" too negative? # A: Synonyms from Moby Thesaurus II @ http://www.dict.org use strict; use warnings; my @strict = strict(); my @warnings = warnings(); while () { print $strict[int(rand(@strict))], ' ', $warnings[int(rand(@warnings))], "\n"; sleep 2 } sub strict { return split /,\s+/, qq/Sabbatarian, Spartan, Spartanic, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, accurate, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, aspersion, astringent, attentive, austere, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, bigoted, bossy, careful, censorious, choicy, choosy, circumscription, close, cold-blooded, complete, compulsive, confining, conscientious, constant, constrictive, correct, cramp, creedbound, critical, defined, delicate, demanding, despotic, detailed, dictatorial, direct, discriminating, discriminative, dogmatic, domineering, dour, draconian, evangelical, even, exact, exacting, exigent, express, exquisite, faithful, fastidious, feudal, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, firm, forbidding, fundamentalist, fussy, grim, grinding, hard, hard-boiled, harsh, hidebound, high-handed, hyperorthodox, imperative, imperial, imperious, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, inflexible, ironhanded, just, limitation, literalist, literalistic, lordly, magisterial, magistral, masterful, mathematical, meticulous, micrometrically precise, microscopic, minute, monocratic, narrow, nice, obloquy, oppressive, overbearing, overconscientious, overruling, overscrupulous, particular, peremptory, perfectionistic, picky, pinpoint, pitiless, precise, precisianist, precisianistic, precisionistic, priggish, prudish, punctilious, punctual, purist, puristic, puritanic, puritanical, refined, reflection, religious, religiously exact, repressive, right, rigid, rigorist, rigorous, rugged, ruthless, scientific, scientifically exact, scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, severe, slam, slur, square, staunch, stern, stint, straitlaced, stricture, stringent, subtle, suppressive, tender-conscienced, thorough, tough, tyrannical, tyrannous, uncompromising, undeviating, undistorted, unerring, unsparing, unsympathetic, veracious, veridical/} sub warnings { return split /,\s+/, qq/admonishing, admonition, admonitory, advice, advising, advisory, advocacy, alerting, augural, blackmail, briefing, bulldozing, call, call for, caution, cautionary, cautioning, caveat, claim, clue, commination, consultation, consultative, consultatory, contribution, council, counsel, cue, demand, demand for, denunciation, determent, deterrence, deterrent, didactic, direction, directive, draft, drain, duty, empty threat, exaction, exemplary, exhortation, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulation, expostulative, expostulatory, extortion, extortionate demand, foreboding, forerunning, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretokening, forewarning, frightening off, guidance, heavy demand, heavy with meaning, hint, hortation, hortative, hortatory, idea, idle threat, imminence, implied threat, imposition, impost, indent, indicative, insistent demand, instruction, instructive, intimidation, intuitive, levy, meaningful, menace, monition, monitorial, monitory, moralistic, nonnegotiable demand, notice, notificational, notifying, office, opinion, order, parley, passing word, pointer, preachy, precursive, precursory, predictive, prefigurative, preindicative, premonitory, presageful, presaging, prognostic, prognosticative, promise of harm, proposal, recommendation, recommendatory, remonstrance, remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, requirement, requisition, rush, rush order, sententious, significant, steer, suggestion, sword of Damocles, talking out of, tax, taxing, thought, threat, threateningness, threatfulness, tip, tip-off, tribute, ultimatum, whisper/}
retroperl retro perl in Meditations
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by Anonymous Monk
on Sep 02, 2019 at 15:41
(OT) Revisionist History Lesson in Meditations
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by Anonymous Monk
on Aug 20, 2019 at 07:25
What modules should be added to the corelist? in Meditations
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by Anonymous Monk
on Aug 16, 2019 at 09:17
Teen Perl in Meditations
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by Anonymous Monk
on Aug 09, 2019 at 03:14
    Will Braswell talks about "the Perl 11 Master Plan to make Perl the king of languages again" in the "State of the Scallion Address" at The Perl Conference 2019 in Pittsburgh. Step 1 of the plan: "We're going to have to educate young people". Perl has this hidden gem of a tutorial which was originally a multi-page website titled "Tinkering With Perl: A Child's Guide" that survives as a single webpage (without the enchanting subtitle) at https://cjshayward.com/perl/

    Will Braswell - "The State of the Scallion Address"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyphRo5roV0

    The Perl 11 Master Plan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyphRo5roV0&t=27m20s

Perl growth in India, China, Russia, Germany and Romania in Meditations
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by Anonymous Monk
on Jul 05, 2019 at 17:22
    A recent comment on r/perl claims that Perl is growing "nicely" in several key nations of Europe and Asia. The author cites their own experience and google as sources:

    "If my google alerts don't mislead me Perl is growing nicely in India, China, Russia and Germany... I can testify to growth in Romania, based on the pressure the HR people are putting on me to recruit people from the places I worked before."

    I share this good news hoping it will make you happy; and also seeking confirmation from those who know where to find such information.

    https://old.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/btt9e9/every_time_i_hear_perl_is_dead_i_think_of_the/eqdno37/

Why is Perl 4 so popular? in Meditations
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by Anonymous Monk
on Nov 01, 2018 at 23:37
    Why are so many contenders to the throne of Perl nothing but a cheap copy of Perl 4?

    PHP, Python, Ruby, Javascript all start by copying Perl's worst practices, according to computer scientists, to become immensely popular, with no strict and globals everywhere.

    But the fun never lasts because they eventually succumb to aspersions of computer scientists to add all sorts of cruft to enforce austerities that satisfy obsessively compartmentalized minds.

    I think the reason is this: Languages like Perl force computers to think like people, rather than forcing people to think like computers.

    Don't get me wrong, we need the scientists to build and maintain the playgound so we can play, but we also need them to get the heck out of our way, and to stay away!

    Hard Fork Perl with a trendy cool name and make sure the batteries are included by throwing in a kitchen sink of about 1000 of the most awesome CPAN modules in a way that will do everything and run everywhere and you may have (another) winner.

    Perl 6, seriously, this is sad:

    
    $input.close or die $!;
    close($output);
    
    
repl.it has a perl problem in Meditations
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by Anonymous Monk
on Oct 25, 2018 at 15:23
    This is ridiculous: repl.it/languages
Perl 11 in Perl News
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by Anonymous Monk
on Oct 23, 2018 at 21:08
If 6 Was 9 in Meditations
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by Anonymous Monk
on Oct 15, 2018 at 14:00
    You know that feeling, when the big program you've been working on approaches completion, and you're scanning for those invisible bugs the others will find when running your code. That's when I saw something like this somewhere between lines 6000 and 7000:
    my $one = 1; my $six = my $nine = 9; print $six; # prints 9
    I didn't know you could chain lexical declarations like that! The bug survived for months because $nine was 0 and $six was supposed to be an empty string. Playing around with it reveals more questionable behavior:
    #!/usr/bin/perl -l use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; print my $J = my $A = my $P = my $H = 'Just',' Another ','Perl',' Hacker';
    Does that look strict? :-)