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Perl/Raku News: Rants, Weekly Challenge and Coders In Cars Getting Chatty

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 2nd of May 2020 10:53:48 AM Filed under
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  • Jussi Pakkanen: You have to kill your perlings

    The 90s and early 2000s a lot of code was written. As was fashionable at the time, a lot of it was done using Perl. As open source projects are chronically underfunded, a lot of that code is still running. In fact a lot of the core infrastructure of Debian, the BSDs and other such foundational projects is written in Perl. When told about this, many people give the "project manager" reply and say that since the code exists, works and is doing what it should, everything is fine. But it's really not, and to find out why, let's look at the following graph.

    [...]

    As we can see the pool of people willing to work on Perl projects is shrinking fast. This is a major problem for open source, since a healthy project requires a steady influx of new contributors, developers and volunteers. As a first order approximation, nobody under the age of 35 knows how to code in Perl, let alone would be willing to sacrifice their free time doing it.

    One could go into long debates and discussions about why this is, how millennials are killing open source and how everyone should just "man up" and start writing sigils in their variable names. It would be pointless, though. The reasons people don't want to do Perl are irrelevant, the only thing that matters is that the use of Perl is actively driving away potential project contributors. That is the zeitgeist. The only thing you can do is to adapt to it. That means migrating your project from Perl to something else.

  • PWC 058: Task #1, Compare Version & Task #2, Ordered Lineup

    I usually am bored with string twisting (as opposed to bit twiddling) because there is a certain level of grunt work, even with such classics as ELIZA and FESTOON and I can easily fall down the rabbit hole of trying to get pluralization perfect. So when the exciting topic of version numbers came up, I would have passed, but we perfectionists have to finish one to get to two....

    Plus there was one thing that I liked, the problem was set up as a comparison operator, like <=> and cmp, suitable for use in a sort routine. Whomever you are out there, with a need to sort thousands of version strings via perl, this script is for you Wink

  • Coders In Cars Getting Chatty

    The last time I spoke at Craft Conference, I also took part in what is probably the most fun and unusual interview of my career: Ivette Ördög’s Morning Commute.

    Bear in mind, however, that this discussion took place back in 2018, so you’ll need to mentally s/Perl 6/Raku/ in a couple of places.

    Even if you’re not interested in my random thoughts on the importance of linguistic diversity, Ivette’s other interviews are well worth watching.

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PWC 058: Task #1, Compare Version & Task #2, Ordered Lineup

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 2nd of May 2020 01:34:10 PM.
  • PWC 058: Task #1, Compare Version & Task #2, Ordered Lineup

    I usually am bored with string twisting (as opposed to bit twiddling) because there is a certain level of grunt work, even with such classics as ELIZA and FESTOON and I can easily fall down the rabbit hole of trying to get pluralization perfect. So when the exciting topic of version numbers came up, I would have passed, but we perfectionists have to finish one to get to two....

    Plus there was one thing that I liked, the problem was set up as a comparison operator, like <=> and cmp, suitable for use in a sort routine. Whomever you are out there, with a need to sort thousands of version strings via perl, this script is for you Wink

The Weekly Challenge #058

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 3rd of May 2020 06:33:38 PM.
  • The Weekly Challenge #058

    This week, I struggled with both the task, to be honest. Dealing with alpha part of the version was really pain in the neck. Every time, I struggle with any task, I follow the college days course of action i.e. pick a pend and paper. I start dribbling the thought process, it really helps in getting the idea out on the paper. Once the rough draft is ready, it is time to face the unit test trial. I make sure every solution of mine must go through the unit test trials. It flesh out edge cases most time, if I could come up with enough test cases.

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