Artix Linux 2022-08-30 19:37

but the syntax $history{CORE::fc($line)}; looks like a meth addict’s code

yes u always were, but not reading complete text

You effectively described actual Perl programmers

It looks quite interesting tho, I could scare my boss with this shit

perl script i wrote

i’m starting to think the original sh version is more readable

but saving two cursed jq was worth it ig

One guy at my prev job said once: “The beauty of Perl is in writing code which works and no one knows how, except you. After a week, you don’t know it too.”

HTTP::Request->new(GET => “Link”);

what le fuck kek

This is like the worst of C++ combined with JS

protip: perl came before either

Oh my Bjarne

wait until you have to deal with references

u can’t discourage me anyways.
But go through that text once again, U got it completely the wrong way.

my $item = ‘Gtk3::ImageMenuItem’->new(“Related videos”);

why is there a single quote string here

like in this snippet later in the script

Looks better than pyshit with significant whitespace

So @ denotes a reference?

[ ] { } create references and @{ } does a deference

and $result->{‘grid’} is like a hashtable or something?

accessing a reference of a hash table

jesus

what kind of sadist wrote this language

and the fact that it hasn’t been updated since 2002 or something is astonishing

Weird coincidence, but somehow most interpreted / dynamic languages code can look extremely obscure no matter how hard you try

this is due to perl flattening all arrays so later when they realized supporting nested structures might be a good thing they came up with this Backward Compatible™ solution

https://t.me/artixlinux/502044
both can be used for scripting & far more

D can be used for scripting too

or C with tcc -run

it’s been updated, but they realized all relevant perl scripts are from back then

so new features are opt-in

There is Raku, but God forbid using it