Enk1du

hace 2 mesesdiscuss

Now I know the only place that Allman style indentation looks good is on a wall.

hace 2 mesesdiscuss

For those who want the comparison, CPAN is Perl's npm or PyPI and is having to deal with the same issues of security and verification. Hope they get it right.

Enk1du

hace 2 mesesdiscuss

That recent?!? Most criticism of Perl comes from people listening to second-hand rants of someone who hasn't looked at Perl since 2001.

Yes, the article could be improved by the Make magazine advice on submissions that you should write a 3 paragraph summary of your article and then submit that instead. This could have been shaved down to the 4 paras at the end (Prologue) to make the author's point more succinctly.

Enk1du

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

After reading the Disclosure in the second paragraph (the motivation for the post), you can skip down to the Comparison and Prologue where you get to the real heart of the post, that in the author's opinion a Federal contractor is using Java for the purpose of extracting funds from the government.

And yes, a Perl team would be much smaller.

Enk1du

hace 5 mesesdiscuss

I tried to remember the study that put the usefulness of a CEO at 10% of the success of the company and found this Science Direct paper from 2023 on "The CEO effect and performance variation over time" which discusses many studies. tl;dr average is 15-20% but they have fun chewing over the outliers.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104898432...

Enk1du

hace 7 mesesdiscuss

Pfft. Spelling differences is minor league stuff. Try code-switching on silence.

Pointed out to me by a Kiwi, that Americans take silence after a statement to mean general agreement, but in Britain silence implicitly asks, "Are you _really sure_ you want to be doing that?"

Enk1du

hace 8 mesesdiscuss

I remember the "Aha" moment on the face of a python-flavoured data scientist when I showed her my Perl scripts for managing LDAP groups.

One look at the class files (written in Moose) and she was stunned that she could immediately understand it, having never written Perl before.

Enk1du

hace 8 mesesdiscuss

> Python is backed by Google

For me, this is why python took off. People wanted that lucrative job or receive the reflected glory of a winner, so y'gotta learn python. The rest is just post-hoc justification for why you made that choice passed on as "this language is better because of blah..."

A lot of the justifications don't stack up against serious scrutiny, but are accepted as gospel.

Enk1du

hace 8 mesesdiscuss

This combined with a cpanfile is how I rescued someone else's workshop from being an "Install these missing dependencies" session to being back on track in 3 minutes with "Here's this file, run 'cpanm --installdeps --notest .'"

https://metacpan.org/pod/cpanfile

Enk1du

hace 8 mesesdiscuss

Not mentioned is that there are _many_ BBC's which became clear when watching the difference in coverage between the local and national broadcasts during Covid. The national editorial team spared the government's blushes at every turn, whereas the local teams reported what was actually happening in their communities, to the point where you were getting more real news from a smaller, underfunded news service.

They each have their own agendas.

Enk1du

hace 8 mesesdiscuss

> The Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13) made changes in the funding and administration of further education and higher education [0]

It was more about reducing budgets. That Conservative government was not filled with class warriors. Oh, how times have changed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Further_and_Higher_Education_A...

Enk1du

hace 9 mesesdiscuss

I play with the timers to layer different sounds in and out. It's the best pomodoro timer out there, for me.

Enk1du

hace 10 mesesdiscuss

I suppose it's because very soon people got tired of writing

  $a->[2]->{"bar"}

which is equivalent and also works, but suffers from the explosion of punctuation that Perl often gets criticised for. There's an element of Do What I Mean where the first arrow says this is a reference and work the rest out for me.

Enk1du

el año pasadodiscuss

I quite enjoyed Perl Best Practices[0] for the rationales behind every decision, most of which I could get on board with. Plus, if you really like it you can auto-reformat code with perltidy[1] using the "--perl-best-practices" flag or check your files with Perl::Critic[2] policies based on PBP.

It's dear to me because it came along at a time when I needed short breaks from thesis writing.

  [0] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/perl-best-practices/0596001738/
  [1] https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Tidy/view/bin/perltidy
  [2] https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic

Enk1du

hace 2 añosdiscuss

At Las Campanas, most of the staff from the cooks to the techs and a number of the researchers were all local. I found quite a bit of interest in the country as a whole as it's a source of national pride being the best location for astronomy.

Allowing this to proceed will affect _all_ future astronomy projects in Chile. No one is going to splash out on a shiny, new 100m optical telescope (OWL) if anyone can come along and park a city's worth of light just down the road.

https://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/eelt/owl/

Enk1du

hace 2 añosdiscuss

Nothing stopping anyone from using Inline::Perl or NativeCall [0]. I'd like to see Raku's concurrency model working on these data structures. Otherwise there's always PDL::ParallelCPU [1]

[0] https://docs.raku.org/language/nativecall [1] https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL::ParallelCPU

Enk1du

hace 2 añosdiscuss

For me, it's the acceleration of development in the last 5 years as seen in the Changes file. It's now releasing new versions almost every month.

https://github.com/PDLPorters/pdl/blob/master/Changes

Enk1du

hace 2 añosdiscuss

What could be described as Numpy for Perl, PDL was released in 1996 and is now seeing a resurgence of interest. The Advent Calendar showcases some of its features in a festive mood.

Enk1du

hace 2 añosdiscuss

Ah, now the Natural Born Heroes heroism and the virtue of Xenia (ξενία) I can get behind.

It's the ego-inflating ""heroes" in scare quotes" that crave validation that I find so exasperating.

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Perl Data Language Advent Calendar

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