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 thatuuidgennatively supports outputting multiple ids like souuidgen -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!
Will Willis (silent11)