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 is alive

https://blog.zerodogg.org/2025/10/13/the-joy-of-rediscovering-perl/

#perl #programming

Today, #Perl remains a powerful tool for one-liners and quick text-processing scripts, a reminder of its origins in the #Unix tradition of doing more with less.
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Via @unix_byte

#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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16509

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16509

🐪 Perl is alive

https://blog.zerodogg.org/2025/10/13/the-joy-of-rediscovering-perl/

#perl #programming

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

#Perl #OpenSource #Programming #History

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

#Perl #OpenSource #Programming #History

#Perl #Halloween #programming #coding #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngjneering #OpenSource #SysAdmin

#Perl #Halloween #programming #coding #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngjneering #OpenSource #SysAdmin

#Perl #Halloween #programming #coding #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngjneering #OpenSource #SysAdmin

In a world where processes die screaming, one language refuses to terminate.

From the twisted minds of P5P and the vision of Larry Wall comes the nightmare sysadmins fear to `ps aux`:

#Perl. You cannot `kill -9` what is already dead.

Coming soon to a terminal near you.

#Halloween #programming #coding #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngjneering #OpenSource #SysAdmin

• #Python is written in C
  - #Perl is written in C
  - #Ruby is written in C
  - #PHP is written in C
  - #JavaScript engines started in C, now mostly in C++
  - #Go was first in C, now written in Go itself
  - #C++ compilers are written in C++
  - #Swift is built with C++ and Swift (on LLVM in C++)
  - #C# runs on .NET, built in C++/C#
  - #JVM (HotSpot) is written in C++

  Yet, people still doubt the necessity of learning C!