in reply to Who's still around?

Howdy!

I've been here since 2001. I was heavy into Perl then and continue to do significant work in it for mostly hobby purposes. I'm still watching pretty much daily.

yours,
Michael

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Re^2: Who's still around?
by stevieb (Canon) on Jul 10, 2024 at 09:13 UTC

    Please keep doing so daily.

    I would love to hear about your hobbies! It's really nice to hear that people still have hobbies in Perl. Honestly... I mostly get put down for my Perl hobbies, even though I write wrappers that are current for today's standards... NHL, Tesla, Raspberry Pi, whatever. Fuck anyone who says Perl is dead... they say that, and I write software to say :P

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      Howdy!

      I have several distinct hobbies that I use Perl to support.

      I'm a tablet weaver, and I cooked up Weaving::Tablet for pattern drafting. Lately I've added (but not published) scripts that render patterns in SVG to get them into print form.

      I also maintain an heraldic database in the SCA (Morsulus Herald, if that means anything), and the codebase I inherited was in Perl and large parts of it remain intact 25 years later. It's clear that it was originally written in Perl 4. I've modernized what I needed to and written more code for my purposes and moved the database into a SQLite database.

      yours,
      Michael
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