MetaFilter posts tagged with Perl

Hacking Perl in nightclubs

yegga — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:08:55 -0800

Erik Naggum (1965-2009)

e.e. coli — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:00:14 -0800

If anyone could flame from beyond the grave, it is he. Erik Naggum was a young programmer and Usenet philosopher who exemplified the new breed of smug Lisp weenie. His hatred for Perl, C++ and XML fueled his Olympian rants. He was cruel, but smart; he was articulate, but he used arguments ad hominem; he left a trail of scorched earth, but he had devoted friends. I didn't know him, but I enjoyed his expression of free thought. He died young after years of torment; R.I.P. Thanks, Google Groups.

1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964

Artw — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:21:53 -0800

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

due to export regulations cycles greater than 1024 should not be used

31d1 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:18:39 -0800

A small collection of special programs for system administration, written at a level suitable for senior admins. Useful standouts include but are not limited to maybe, bottom, lsss, ged, pam happy hour, and jecho.

delete what they end to all of the loop press

Blazecock Pileon — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:17:57 -0800

delete adult scroll conflict for (or: 10 minutes of Perl scripting with Vista)

20 years of line noise and here's to 20 more

[@I][:+:][@I] — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:46:19 -0800

#!/usr/bin/perl
@d = localtime(time);
if ($d[4] == 11 && $d[3] == 18 ) {
 print "Happy ".($d[5]-87)."th Birthday, Perl!\n";
}
if( $ARGV[0] eq "love" || $ARGV[0] eq "hate" ) {
 print "$you can't deny its contribution to our culture\n"; 
}

A mouthful of bytecode

Skorgu — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:57:16 -0800

Bytecode-based virtual machines are the Next Big Thing in programming. You can run Lisp, Ruby, Python, OCaml, and yes even COBOL on the JVM. Or if you prefer your languages to be a bit more melodic there's J#, A#, P# and F#. Even C/C++ has a bytecode compiler now. That's not to mention languages that have their own VMs like Erlang or that are writing their own like Parrot or PyPy. Some background for the confused: Computer programs are traditionally written in human-readable source code then compiled to computer-executable machine code. Bytecode is a sort of halfway point between the two. It's not human readable but neither is it tied to a specific architecture like compiled code is. Java is the canonical example: a program written in Java will run on any machine that has a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) from your desktop to your cellphone. With bytecode-targeted compilers programmers can write in their favorite language without being limited by the libraries and compilers written for it and have those programs run anywhere there's an appropriate VM.

Web programming references

Roger Dodger — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:59:30 -0800

Web programmers take note, gotAPI is an excellent collection of searchable programming references wrapped up into a customizable interface.

Orthodox platform agnosticism

Blazecock Pileon — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:05:50 -0800

I dare you to throw a bunch of compilers at me! Pshaw!

I Am Learn

KevinSkomsvold — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 22:59:54 -0800

I am learn is a weblog written by a Perl script and – get this – its managed to create quite … a lucid weblog. Yes. A weblog. By a Perl script. The author says "I wrote a ridiculous Perl program to generate text. Thing is, it developed some bugs, and has managed to create phrases and combinations of words (which actually make sense) that I didn’t even program in. I hooked it up to the Blogger API, and now it updates its own weblog with no editing on my part (I just give it a bunch of topics to talk about)."[via Kevin Francis]

Shocking news from the Learn Perl or Die Association

riffola — Wed, 14 May 2003 09:50:55 -0800

Test shows 99.99% of US high school seniors can't read Perl. The first part asked students to translate easy Perl phrases into their standard English equivalent, and the second section required students to produce a simple MP3 player in Perl. "I didn't know what the hell any of it meant," said one Senior, "it had lots of slashes and periods and brackets. It was so confusing. I'm feeling rather nauseous." Come on USA, if you can't read Perl, just how are you going to fight for your right to party?

CSS on demand

Su — Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:17:53 -0800

CSS on Demand allows users to set several preferences for how they want to see your site, rather than just using one of your themes via a switcher. Kind of like Matt lets you do here.
Perl. Free. Try it out.

chipr — Tue, 04 Dec 2001 00:09:12 -0800

Is your son a computer hacker? Has your son loaded strange programs like "Flash" on the family computer? Is your son reading dangerous books like "Programming with Perl?" Is your son obsessed with "Lunix?" [sic] Hey, I read it on the web, so it must be true.

Atom Heart Mother — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:04:46 -0800

Dave Winer offers us 2 views of the scripting world in 2005. He says that 'in one view, we are all inside Microsoft's box, sharing a common set of libraries and object hierarchies. In the other, we use our favourite tools and runtimes, our communities stay independent.' Frighteningly, he may well be absolutely right. What a great diagram; it reminds me of drawing when I was a kid.

deftone — Wed, 07 Mar 2001 14:40:24 -0800

Descramble DVD encryption in 7 lines of perl code ...created by 2 MIT programmers. Will the MPAA threaten to sue you if you include it in your email signature? Yah for civil disobedience.

lescour — Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:12:42 -0800

just another perl poet. program your refrigerator. from /usr/bin/girl

mathowie — Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:18:14 -0800

I'm a gadget freak and I've got lights in my house controlled by my computer. But the folks at misterhouse.net have taken it 10 steps further. There's a web interface to all sorts of things, inlcluding the lighting system, the vcr, and reminders of new mail. That's some pretty nifty geek stuff they have going on there.

mathowie — Thu, 04 Nov 1999 16:32:24 -0800

The BBC, working with the Royal National Institute for the Blind, has created a perl script that reparses a page, stripping out the text from tables and reorganizing it on the fly. It creates a pretty good visually impaired-friendly version of your pages instantly. I don't know how well it does on complex page layouts, but compare the BBC News site in its typical state to the parsed 'text-only' version, and you can see they are pretty close in terms of content.