@dvshkn@social.treehouse.systems
Post #3818938
2026-04-28 17:42 UTC
Not being a #perl person myself, I kinda miss the days of people writing inscrutable perl one-liners that fit on a business card. Hopefully that scene is still alive somewhere.
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@JustinDerrick@mstdn.ca 2026-07-14 21:50
@dvshkn@social.treehouse.systems It's called #PerlGolf -- solve a problem in as few characters as possible. Every language has its version of the game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_golf
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@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange 2026-04-28 19:00
@dvshkn@social.treehouse.systems it is possible to write well-structured, well-tested, and legible Perl. It has trundled on for decades because it effortlessly handles use cases that would be bugbears for Python. For example: ME: Uh I have a Perl script that was written for a very old version of Perl and I want to run it now PERL 5.38.4: No problem boss you just tell me what version of Perl you want me to be ME: using 5.8.1;