When will the AI bubble burst?

• 2024
• 2025
• 2026-2027
• 2028-2030
• One microsecond after Skynet becomes self-aware

What do you use perl for?

• for fun
• l'art pour l'art
• garbage in, garbage out
• whitehat stuff
• blackhat stuff
• keep a business running I don't understand
• keep my own business running
• make money
• Save the world! (how?)
• Other (please elaborate)

As usual: a combination of many of those. I fist look at perl with *any* job-related programming/scripting issue. I also look at perl when trying to express a new idea. The I us it to improve my CPAN modules and to compare to other languages. In all of these FUN! is the most important factor.


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

See also the I use Perl at work for poll.

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That was 23 years ago ... it would be interesting to see if something has changed in this time ...

The PerlMonks site front end has

• Too much JavaScript
• Not enough JavaScript
• Just the right amount of JavaScript
• Not enough WebPerl

(edited to clarify that this is about the page rendering and not about the topics in the actual content)

• No.
• New POD block that just parses Markdown-style bullet list notation
• Implement rendering for "=begin markdown"
• New POD block "=markdown"
• Directive that causes POD to parse Markdown in all blocks, with HTML output semantics
• Introduce "POD2" which enhances POD with Markdown syntax shortcuts, keeping POD/nroff semantics
• Completely replace POD with Markdown in new style of Perl comment; use 3rd party Markdown tooling

• Implement a good processor for an already existing =begin markdown POD command

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

Good call, added. Also clarified the others a bit.

Java recently gained native support for using Markdown in Javadoc comments.

chatterbot is...

• Great! It updates last hour of cb and helps me join a discussion.
• The! Worst! Thing! Ever! It always ignores my self-upvotes for cb stats!!?!
• Somewhat useful in settling debates with coin flips and dice rolls.
• A mystery to me. I guess i should read the documentation on its homenode some day.
• Chatterbot? Nobody told me about it!
• Not my cup of tea. I do not do that live chat thingie...

• A day trip
• Baking a cake
• ...

Not much comes to mind, please help.

• Proposing
• Leaping
• Reading La_Bougie_du_Sapeur

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• make love, not war
• enjoy life
• relax (as there is no leap year bug in my code)

• frog out
perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

• Komodo
• Visual Studio
• JetBrains
• I've never used one

"What's the best IDE you've ever used?

So begins a holy war.....

What's the best IDE you've ever used?

vim

Cheers, Sören

Créateur des bugs mobiles - let loose once, run everywhere.
(hooked on the Perl Programming language)

I second that! :-)

"It's not how hard you work, it's how much you get done."

Talking about editor wars, VI's philosophy is to use external not internal tools, so by definition it's pretty much the opposite of an I DE.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

Although I haven't used it this millennium, LSE was an absolute necessity for doing proper dev work on VMS back in the day.

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• Padre
• Eclipse with EPIC
• Visual Studio Code
• Komodo IDE
• Atom
• Vim & Vi'sh editors
• Emacs in cperl-mode & other Emacsen (Spacemacs, Doom,...)
• Notepad++
• Sublime Text
• Geany
• A JetBrains IDE with CamelCade
• Netbeans
• Kate
• ...

s/vim/A vi-compatible editor (vi, vim, gvim, nvi, elvis, ...)/

Not that I would recommend it, but if you have Eclipse in the list (which I loathe), then certainly Netbeans should be on there too (also not used for the last 3 years)

To me, nothing beats Elvis (yet), thought its Unicode support is lacking


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

emacs

Delphi. Hands down the best ever created for any language, even though I've only used 5 languages professionally. I instinctively know that nobody will ever surpass Delphi.