William Lindley

• Website: www.wlindley.com
• About: Hacking Perl for fun and profit since 1994, *nix since 1980.

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• Commented on cperl-5.22.1 released
  Good stuff. What would be required to have cperl versions available via perlbrew?...
• Commented on Is Perl still a useful, viable language?
  Folks need to hear that Mojolicious and Dancer are as good or better than Ruby-on-Rails and Node.js… that the free Modern Perl book is an excellent alternate to the classic Camel… Perl is the future, if only we could convince...

Comment Threads

• Liz commented on Is Perl still a useful, viable language?

  I agree that Perl is the future.

  However, I think that if you think Perl's future depends on Larry's decision on what to name the next version of Perl, you are both demeaning to the fine folks that keep working on Perl 5, as well as to the fine folks that work on Perl 6.

  From a PR point of view, the disaster has already happened. The only way to make Perl work in the future, is to use this disaster to our advantage: SSSDR (aka "Second System Syndrome Done Right).

  I think Rakudo Perl 6 is the only chance the Perl mindset has to survive. In a world where CPU's do not …

• icjs commented on Is Perl still a useful, viable language?

  Do you want to know how to convince people that Perl is a viable language?

  It's simple.

  Stop talking and start building cool stuff in it.

  Bonus points if they are web applications because then you can demo it easily. It doesn't matter if the front-end is in node.js, Angular or whatever - if the back-end is in Perl then it demonstates that Perl is viable.

  Then go shout about your creations on social media (#perl?)

  Then blog about how you did it. Show it is possible for others to follow in your footsteps.

  Counter the stereotypes about Perl by b…

• Ron Abraham commented on Is Perl still a useful, viable language?

  I right now am using a free PAAS provider to build a couple of applications in Perl. However the latest version they support is Perl 5.10. There is some roundabout way to install Perl5.2X im told, but i wanna go legit since ive a startup.
  

  If TPF can fund some free PAAS hosting options for perl apps, im sure many more startups would opt to build their apps in perl 5/6.
  What i am trying to say is Site Hosting as a ploy for lang…

• fmtyew.tk commented on cperl-5.22.1 released

  perlbrew needs to remove some strings and regexes concerning the dist tarball name in order to support differently named Perl variants, as of now the string "perl" is hardcoded all over. Run perlbrew download https://github.com/perl11/cperl/archive/cperl-5.22.1.tar.gz and start debugging from there.