Category: Programming
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“I Do Not Want To Use Any Modules”
Almost every day on the Perl groups on LinkedIn (or Facebook, or StackOverflow, or somewhere like that) I see a question that includes the restriction “I do not want to use any modules”. There was one on LinkedIn yesterday. He wanted to create a MIME message to pass to sendmail, but he didn’t want to install…
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Perl Usage
In my last blog post, I posted a graph showing that out of 135 companies at a recent Silicon MilkRoundabout recruitment event, only one said that they were using Perl. That has led to some interesting discussions that I’d like to address here. I should make it clear that I wasn’t presenting my graph as…
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Programming Language Usage
Back in May, I spent an afternoon at Silicon MilkRoundabout. Silicon MilkRoundabout is a recruitment fair for techies. It’s specifically aimed at people who want to work for start-ups around the Old Street area (although they aren’t particularly stringent about sticking to that – for example, the BBC were there). We were given a booklet…
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Data Munging with Perl
Many years ago, I wrote a book called Data Munging with Perl. People were kind enough to say nice things about it. A few people bought copies. I made a bit of money. Recently I re-read it. I thought that some of it was still pretty good. There were some bits, particularly in the early…
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Dots and Perl
I was running a training course this week, and a conversation I had with the class reminded me that I have been planning to write this article for many months. There are a number of operators in Perl that are made up of nothing but dots. How many of them can you name? There are…