Uriel Lizama

• About: CTO at dealercoms.com Have been programming in Perl for almost two decades now.

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• Posted Why we use Perl at our company to Uriel

  I've been programming in Perl for almost two decades now. A lot has changed in Perl, and also in the way I program with it.

  Several years ago my partners and I started a software company, I was in charge of everything to do with tech, so as CTO it was my responsibility to choose the tech s…

• Commented on Perl::Critic --praise
  LOL...
• Commented on No semicolon after return values
  Although I see the point, I believe in keeping a constant style throughout your code, so if you end all your statements with ';' this should be consistent with all statements. This is the same problem I have with languages...
• Commented on Programmers need a muse
  Believe me, some days I'm in the exact same position, I wonder how I managed to keep my two ears this long. :P...
• Posted Programmers need a muse to Uriel

  The Muses in Greek mythology are the goddesses or spirits who inspire the creation of arts; they were considered the source of the knowledge. And I believe as a programmer you need your muse.

  Most of the time whenever I talk with people about…

Comment Threads

• Shawn H Corey commented on Programmers need a muse

  What's wrong with Saint Ada?

• Raster Burn commented on Perl::Critic --praise

  This reminds me of unit testing achievements. Maybe Perl::Critic could be used to rank developers on a leaderboard and encourage some friendly competition?

• sahqueeks.myopenid.com commented on Perl::Critic --praise

  Don't encourage narcissism.

• Mike Friedman commented on Perl::Critic --praise

  Why not? The great thing about narcissism is how it makes clear what an awesome cool dude you are.

• Steven Haryanto commented on No semicolon after return values

  Interesting thought. I personally always add a semicolon for the last statement of the block (though I also seldom use explicit 'return'). Unless they are inline, e.g.:

  for (...) { stmt; last-stmt }

  Dunno. These are just habits, I guess.