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🐪 Dotcom Survivor Syndrome – How Perl’s Early Success Created the Seeds of Its Downfall - Perl Hacks
｢ Perl wasn’t the problem. The conditions under which we used it were. And unfortunately, those conditions, combined with a separate, prolonged misstep over versioning, continue to distort Perl’s reputation to this day ｣
David Condon just released a #NextFlow/ #snakemame pipeline/logger alternative in #Perl:
https://metacpan.org/pod/SimpleFlow
which should make debugging and running very complex #pipelines much easier.
🐪 Dotcom Survivor Syndrome – How Perl’s Early Success Created the Seeds of Its Downfall - Perl Hacks
｢ Perl wasn’t the problem. The conditions under which we used it were. And unfortunately, those conditions, combined with a separate, prolonged misstep over versioning, continue to distort Perl’s reputation to this day ｣
In #rstats, one does cut(values,breaks=c(min_value, V1,V2..,Vn,max_value),include.lowest=TRUE) to create categorical features out of continuous values.
In #Perl invoke vsearch_sample ($values,$breaks), but omit the min_value from $breaks to achieve the same effect #PerlDataLanguage #PDL #Perl4DataScience
Sometimes one has to peek under the hood or inside the black box .
How I fixed the surprisingly slow speed of the percentile function in Perl Data Language in #Perl (no C)
https://chrisarg.github.io/Killing-It-with-PERL/2025/11/30/Faster-quantie-calculations-in-PDL.html
Background :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantile
Sometimes one has to peek under the hood or inside the black box .
How I fixed the surprisingly slow speed of the percentile function in Perl Data Language in #Perl (no C)
https://chrisarg.github.io/Killing-It-with-PERL/2025/11/30/Faster-quantie-calculations-in-PDL.html
Background :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantile
@gregory.levonian.net Shut up Apple whore..... the Xeon Bros are talking.
(For context the OP and your truly use RAID0 with voluminous, recomputable derived data and scratch pads. For example a set of scripts of 1000 #perl loc populates my hard disks with data from NCBI and EMBL. I could not care less if the RAID goes belly up - I will suffer no data loss. However the N x write and speed up when doing database work is worth the absent risk. Not everyone is hoarding movies GGG)
This piece resonated with me!
👀 #Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.”
✊But at least you can tell it was made by humans.
🙏Still, I find myself returning to this strange language, and I think it’s because of the humility at its core.
https://www.wired.com/story/programmers-arent-humble-anymore-nobody-codes-in-perl/
I loved this piece
👀 #Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.”
✊But at least you can tell it was made by humans.
🙏Still, I find myself returning to this strange language, and I think it’s because of the humility at its core.
https://www.wired.com/story/programmers-arent-humble-anymore-nobody-codes-in-perl/
#Perl conferences, mailing lists, and #CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) created a vibrant ecosystem long before the modern package managers of today. As the web matured and new languages emerged, #Python, #PHP, and later #Ruby, Perl’s dominance gradually waned. Still, many of the ideas Perl popularised, from regular expressions to package repositories, remain foundational today.
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#Perl conferences, mailing lists, and #CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) created a vibrant ecosystem long before the modern package managers of today. As the web matured and new languages emerged, #Python, #PHP, and later #Ruby, Perl’s dominance gradually waned. Still, many of the ideas Perl popularised, from regular expressions to package repositories, remain foundational today.
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#Perl conferences, mailing lists, and #CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) created a vibrant ecosystem long before the modern package managers of today. As the web matured and new languages emerged, #Python, #PHP, and later #Ruby, Perl’s dominance gradually waned. Still, many of the ideas Perl popularised, from regular expressions to package repositories, remain foundational today.
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Perl’s creator, Larry Wall, brought a unique mix of linguistic curiosity and playful wit to the project, qualities that infused the language itself with personality. His famous motto, “There’s more than one way to do it”, captured the ethos of a growing open-source community.
#Perl
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The early 1990s were the heyday of #Perl, a language that embodied the spirit of the early web: flexible, pragmatic, and unapologetically messy. Perl quickly became the tool of choice for system administrators, #CGI (Common Gateway Interface) programming, and anyone who needed to glue together disparate systems quickly. Its rich text-processing capabilities and easy integration with #Unix tools made it indispensable for automating tasks and building early dynamic web pages.
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@shauna Hi. I could talk you over #perl if you'd like
https://github.com/Perl/perl5
I am honestly impressed by the SIMDe (SIMD everywhere) library
https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde
It simplified considerably some #bioinformatics relevant code I am writing since I don't have to reinvent the wheel and use complicated preprocessor directives and macros to figure out where the program compiles. Kudos to the authors and the team!
I have working examples of the #Perl + SIMDe marriage for extreme portability.
See also this paper about ARM NEON and RISCV
I am honestly impressed by the SIMDe (SIMD everywhere) library
https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde
It simplified considerably some #bioinformatics relevant code I am writing since I don't have to reinvent the wheel and use complicated preprocessor directives and macros to figure out where the program compiles. Kudos to the authors and the team!
I have working examples of the #Perl + SIMDe marriage for extreme portability.
See also this paper about ARM NEON and RISCV
This day 30 years ago - on Oct 26th 1995, #CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) was announced to the world by Jarkko Hietaniemi – CPAN's Self-Appointed Master Librarian (OOK!), to the comp.lang.perl.announce newsgroup.
Happy Birthday, CPAN!
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.perl.announce/c/1qlLHdviZlY/m/hU90ubJHrf4J
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