silent11

Every 8-12'ish months I get sentimental/nostalgic over the good 'old days. I'll head over to CPAN and look at the latest releases investigate a few projects, maybe even make a contribution. I'll then head over to Perlmonks to see what's going on.

Well yesterday, and still today all I see is a fastly "Opps, something went wrong" screen. Is Perlmonks dead? The title of the page is "Client Challenge" so I hope that it's some fastly issue and not that the plug has been pulled on PM.

I just needed a few rows of UUIDs in a column of a spreadsheet, more for esthetics than anything else. uuidgen to the rescue.

At the time I didn't realize that uuidgen natively supports outputting multiple ids like so

uuidgen -C 8

The truly lazy path would have been to read the fine uuidgen manual.

Alas, supposing I needed to make multiple calls to uuidgen, I went with a Perl one-liner with a loop, as…

I just read chris fedde's response to Ejecting CGI.pm From the Perl Core, my head nodded in agreement from start to finish. It helped me clarify a few of the thoughts and concerns I've had bouncing around in my head for the past several days.

So here goes: I think it would be a mistake for perl core to not "Dance with the one that brung ya".

How many of us are using Perl because of CGI.pm? When I …

I logged in to perlmonks yesterday to find this!

10 years of programming Perl.

I'm grateful to have found such a wonderful language to help me do almost any job at work better, and for keeping me entertained long into the night away from the office. I look forward to another 10 years. Thanks Perl!