I still love when people say nice things about Perl
John Siracusa, on the Diving for Perl episode of the Command Line Heroes podcast:
My hope for Perl 5 is that people don’t dismiss it, because despite all the other more popular languages, there are still problems today to which Perl 5 is the best solution. Very often those are sort of glue type problems. If you find yourself ever writing a shell script, and you’re like, “Well, I’m not going to use my ‘real programming language’ for this.” Whether it’s Python, or Ruby, or whatever. But a shell script can let me connect together a bunch of stuff. Perl is a better tool for that job. It is easier to write a correct Perl script than it is to write a correct shell script.
Having written a few glue tasks with GNU Coreutils and some shell scripts, I agree with that point. Even just glueing together Coreutils can be easier with Perl.
And Raku:
That’s the great thing about open source, and programming languages. No one’s going to make you stop. You can just keep working on Perl 6 the same way you have been.
I won’t say whether I installed a fresh build of Rakudo and played around with Raku after listening to the podcast, but — I installed a fresh build of Rakudo and played around with Raku after listening to this episode.
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Twitter: 2019-08-06 Tue 08:40
In Washington now, “white collar” salaries over 23.5K are exempt from overtime. State wants it at 35K (49K for big companies) next year.
Some nonprofits proposed 42K instead.
Dunno, you could maybe instead try not calling everyone a director so you can burn them out.
https://twitter.com/Crosscut/status/1158757624160145408
hackers.town: 2019-08-06 Tue 10:29
Thumb’s been hurting for the last couple weeks. Maybe too much detail drawing?
Anyways, it makes writing hard despite some great workaround suggestions. Worse writing means worse notes means worse brain.
glares at thumb
HEAL QUICKER DANGIT
Twitter: 2019-08-06 Tue 22:44
i mean not us obviously but we should keep an eye on our coworkers and uh have them keep an eye on us so we stay honest
https://twitter.com/HAIL_9000/status/1158937726680363009
hackers.town: 2019-08-06 Tue 23:42
A little bedtime work on the #drawing
