Saturday Perl Link Dump
It’s Christmas weekend, so I’m allowed to give myself a little something. In this case, I’m eschewing the normal link dumps and concentrating on the greatest computer language of all time, Perl. I know I just lost 90% of you, and for that I’m sorry. For the rest of us — whoo-hoo!
If I didn’t lose you already, here’s something funny from the Perl documentation, about the creator of the language, Larry Wall:
1. Larry is always by definition right about how Perl should behave. This means he has final veto power on the core functionality.
2. Larry is allowed to change his mind about any matter at a later date, regardless of whether he previously invoked Rule 1.
Got that? Larry is always right, even when he was wrong.
* Perl.com
* Larry Wall discusses Perl 6. (Via)
* Documentation on the Games::Cards module. It should allow you to more easily write card games in Perl. For the graphical interface, check out the Games::Cards::Tk module.
* An Obfuscated Perl program, along with commentary by its author, who wasn’t too happy to come in second place.
* Find Perl on any operating system. I used this to better understand how Perl is set up on my Mac.
* Want to write GUI applications in Perl? Use Perl/Tk.
* Ubuntu Live CD release for different OSes. I can run Linux on my Mac without futzing with the hard drive this way.
* And just for pure geek fun: Use Linux as a Windows screensaver.
December 25th, 2005 at 12:02 am
A few more for you:
www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/columns.html - my 240+ magazine articles on Perl
learn.perl.org - great place for beginners
www.perlmonks.org - great web-based community for Perl
search.cpan.org - look for Perl modules, read docs, links to bug reports, quality reports, etc
December 25th, 2005 at 8:26 am
Thanks for stopping by my humble little blog, Randal! I’m in the middle of re-reading your “Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules” at the moment, preparing for a little coding on the side for fun I want to do. While occasionally I go all cross-eyed thinking about curly braces, parentheses, and anonymous references, it’s very helpful and the best way to learn this stuff I’ve ever come across.
It’s my goal in life to never have to become a Java programmer to maintain my computer programming career. ;-)
December 27th, 2005 at 7:58 pm
Perl over Lisp? I think not. I’ll spare you my long rant on how Lisp lost the language wars of the 80s, although I’ll toss in a pointer to Richard Gabriel’s “Worse Is Better” paper which sums up the general principles (although it’s more aimed at how Unix won out)