KAMEL-Grillen am 13.6.2025, Donauinsel Grillplatz #10: https://vienna.pm.org/kamelgrillen.html
#Perl

I just found this interesting #Perl script which acts as kind of a #telnet #gateway, accepting incomig telnet connections and then starting #dosbox with your preferred #bbs #software (e.g. #Telegard) so that you can run and access old #DOS #bbs #programs via your #Linux host:

https://github.com/Geryon/TelnetBBS

@jeff #Perl is far from "dead." It is modern language that is actively developed. 5.40.2 was just released in fact.

Corinna: A modern and mature object system for Perl 5

With Corinna, the Perl programming language has had a more mature object system since version 5.38 without the previous weak point of missing keywords.

https://www.heise.de/en/background/Corinna-A-modern-and-mature-object-system-for-Perl-5-9759590.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

Yay! Another #Perl #podcast https://pca.st/episode/11af2c9b-30e5-4a6b-a2c9-53c90e3972d4

I've uploaded the slides of my #perl Map::Tube HOWTO talk from #gpw2025 to my blog for those who missed the workshop or those who wish to read a condensed version of the blog post series.

https://peateasea.de/talks/

Boston.PM virtual meeting Tuesday 7ish EDT

https://mobilizon.us/events/7f530be9-a6ec-4653-9c0d-403047ca3a25

There was a «A Language Creators’ Conversation» in 2019 with:
• Anders Hejlsberg (Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, #TypeScript)
• James Gosling (#Java)
• Guido Van Rossum (#Python)
• Larry Wall (#Perl)

hosted by Carol Willing (#JupyterProject).

The audio is very bad, but I wanted to share the content so I paid a human to transcribe it better than an AI could.

Here's the transcript & link to video. Enjoy!

https://ramalho.org/posts/language-creators-2019/

The upside to writing a #Perl or #Python program to parse STDIN is that with one change, the code can deal with UTF8 text. The equivalent #C needs to be rewritten to use entirely different underlying functions.

The downside is that sometimes it's 100 times slower than the equivalent C program(s).

I have a long-standing project which I am converting to use C++ modules. I've decided that using #perl to generate the Makefile is vastly easier than using #autotools and #cmake.

At least I can understand WTF is going on.

In the end, programmatical beats automagical.

I’ve just switched an old iMac to run Linux Mint (Cinnamon) and it’s great. Starting to want to dig a little deeper into it I guess it comes with a C compiler.

Does it also have a Python interpreter? Anything else? (During a recent update the word Perl kept flashing across the screen)

I know #Python on its own is not a fast language, but I'm looking at code that rebuilds several small lists, one `arr.append()` at a time, (mumble 1920 // 16 times 1080 // 16 is) 8,040 times, and it reminds me of #Perl's read-only reputation.

Basically, no wonder you think that if this is the kind of code you're writing.

I'm no optimization wizard, but I at least try to learn the language.

For next 4 days #Leipzig in Germany is the center of work on the #Perl programming language.

At the Perl Toolchain Summit over 30 experts and highly involved volunteers gather to keep the language and its ecosystem healthy and appealing

Photo: Same venue in Leipzig already used at German Perl Workshop 2022. Photo from @sjn

I was looking for an alternative to classic shell scripts, so I timed a Hello World program in different languages for fun. I thought you might want to know:

1 ms - #Bash
1 ms - #Perl
12 ms - #Python
33 ms - #Go (shebang calling `go run`)
38 ms - #C (shebang compiling to temporary file)
61 ms - #Rust (shebang compiling to temporary file)

Needless to say that this is a highly unfair and silly comparison. It's still interesting, though.

On my way to Leipzig for the #Perl toolchain summit!

Hoping to work on a #CRA Steward concept for #CPAN and have productive discussions around #security, #metadata, #sustainability and #compliance with the attendees.

Wish me luck, andif you care!

#Perl DBD::mysql and the corresponding #RHEL package have always been #MariaDB compatible, i.e., you could install MariaDB and DBD::mysql RPMs together.
But the new DBD::mysql package in #CentOS stream can no longer be installed with MariaDB.
I filed a bug (https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-88746) and #RedHat said it's not supposed to work. Except it always has.
What do you think?
(Note if it doesn't work then all Perl scripts on the host that use DBD::mysql must be modified to use DBD::MariaDB instead.)
#mysql