In Implementation by Wishful Thinking, I looked at a problem caused by a simple change to how File::Find handles symlink related options. The problem itself was moved several [...]

It is natural to want the world to be simpler. To wish legacy code away. To want to avoid dealing with platform specific differences.

It is natural. But, in most cases, it also not possi [...]

I still follow Perl releases and build them from source using the most recent version of Microsoft Visual C. Each new version of Perl brings in some impr [...]

Much pontification exists when it comes to unit testing. Developers get introduced to the idea of TDD with simple code such as testing a method that adds two numbers etc so that they can l [...]

I recently decided to go back to dabbling in OCaml. The easier path would have been to install it in a Linux VM and play with it there, but I decided to build it from sourc [...]

Some months ago, I got curious about ESP32 microcontrollers. The exact reason is not important. I ended up learning about N [...]

Every week, I look forward to receiving Gabor’s Perl Weekly. I noticed Forking tests in the latest issue. The author has written a password generation module, and wants to ensure that child and parent [...]

From time to time, people I meet ask me if they should learn Perl 6 since that is the “latest” Perl. For the most part, they have not written a line of Perl in their lives. They also ask me how Perl 6 [...]

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"The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every [...]