By Marc, on December 28th, 2007%
A snippet from the latest freshmeat.net announcement of Perl 5.10 that landed in my email inbox:
This version includes a new smart match operator, a switch statement,
the // defined-or operator, regular expression improvements, and
other language changes…
Funny, I was just thinking that what Perl needs most is more operators… . . . → Read More: Perl->{‘5.10′} += (“//” && > Operator[s])? =~ /amusing/
By Marc, on June 15th, 2006%
What other language would let you do this?
”=~( ‘(?{‘ .(‘`’ |’%') .(‘[‘ ^’-')
.(‘`’ . . . → Read More: Perl is evil
By Marc, on May 3rd, 2006%
ActiveState Komodo is a programmer’s IDE for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows that is tailored for programming with a number of dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl.
I came across this post the other day which gives the promo code kmd3n9-ur8 for getting Komodo Personal Edition for free, but says that the . . . → Read More: Komodo, a Komodity
By Marc, on March 13th, 2005%
After quite a bit of futzing around, I got Zoidberg working. I had mentioned here that I had installed it, but that the cd command wasn’t working.
Well, here’s what I did…
Continue reading Got Zoidberg working
By Marc, on March 11th, 2005%
I’m playing around a bit with:
Zoidberg – a modular perl shell
The idea of having a shell that allows Perl-syntax is interesting.
The problem I am having right now is that the “cd” command doesn’t work. That one is kind of a biggie for me
I’m talking with the developer over email and we’ll see if we . . . → Read More: Zoidberg – a modular perl shell
By Marc, on December 18th, 2004%
It took a while for me to figure out how to build this sucker for TiVo, because Perl has a different build process than most other Unix programs and I had to manually tell it all the right config settings for the TiVo MIPS. And it kept wanting to run the miniperl and perl binaries that . . . → Read More: Perl for TiVo Series 2