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Tim Bray
Tim Bray
@timbray@cosocial.ca  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

The year is 2026 and I just fixed some broken Perl code. Living in the future, baby.

#perl

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GrumpyDad 馃嚭馃嚘馃嚨馃嚫
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@grumpydad@infosec.exchange replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@timbray Was on a job once where I wrote in excess of 10000 lines of perl code over a few months.

70% of that was comments.

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Michael Will
Michael Will
@scidata@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@timbray
My major projects are written in FORTH. And for very solid reasons.

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jwz
jwz
@jwz@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@timbray It could be worse, you could be installing yet another copy of a very specific 3-digit version of Python. Oh wait.

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Greg Kemp
Greg Kemp
@gkemp@hachyderm.io replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@timbray Did you *actually* fix it, or did you rewrite it?

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Tim Bray
Tim Bray
@timbray@cosocial.ca replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@gkemp It's a useful app contained in a single 2,973-line .pl file.

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halindrome
halindrome
@halindrome@techhub.social replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@timbray still use Perl everyday.

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Chip Butty
Chip Butty
@otfrom@functional.cafe replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@timbray someone should write about programmer archaeologists

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