The Future Isn’t Evenly Distributed

A model data centre that also includes a 2000s-era Compaq PC running NMS Formmail

“The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed.”— William Gibson I was reminded of that quote this week when I received a support request for a Perl CGI script I helped write about twenty-five years ago. If you’re a software developer, your immediate reaction is probably the same as mine was. “A […]

Remember PerlScript? When Internet Explorer Could Run Perl

Perl and Internet Explorer

Every now and then I’m reminded of a technology from the early days of the web and wonder if I imagined it. This week, it was Mohammad using WebAssembly to run Perl in his browser. Which led to me thinking about PerlScript. If you’re a certain age, and you spent any time developing web applications […]

25 Years of Perl

A few days ago, I mentioned that I’m giving a talk at the London Perl Workshop called Twenty Five Years of Perl in Twenty Five (ish) Minutes. I already have a good idea of how the talk will go. I’ve got a good structure to hang everything off. But I’m still working on the detail. I know I’m […]