Re^5: Choosing the right module (Acme::EyeDrops used in production)

I was flabbergasted to learn back in 2012 that Acme::EyeDrops was being used in production! ... but also proud that it'd been running successfully for quite a while.

Oh, I see you were also involved in that old thread!! And your reply probably provoked me into adding it to Security through Obscurity References. :)

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Re^6: Choosing the right module by cavac (Prior) on Oct 27, 2022 at 10:36 UTC
Nice. Acme modules aren't always completely useless. I sometimes use Acme::September::Eternal and Acme::December::Eternal as examples on how to do date calculations using Date::Manip PerlMonks XP is useless? Not anymore: XPD - Do more with your PerlMonks XP	[reply]
Re^7: Choosing the right module by hippo (Archbishop) on Oct 27, 2022 at 11:11 UTC
I was unaware of Acme::September::Eternal until today. A couple of years ago in my ignorance I wrote a little script to perform essentially the same task, albeit just for the current date. Looking into the source we can see that Acme::September::Eternal makes use of Date::Manip (as you mention) and Lingua::EN::Numbers::Ordinate whereas my solution is based on Time::Piece and Lingua::EN::Inflexion. Mechanical details aside, they are practically the same. TIMTOWTDI indeed. Here is a redacted version of mine, for anyone interested. `#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use Time::Piece; use Lingua::EN::Inflexion 'inflect'; my $now = localtime; my $then = Time::Piece->strptime ('1993-08-31', '%Y-%m-%d'); my $diff = $now - $then; $diff = int ($diff / 86400); my $day = inflect ("<#o:$diff>"); print "Today is the $day of September 1993\n"; exit;` [download] 🦛	[reply] [d/l]