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Nice!
Someone has begun an #HPMOR comic! 😄
Who would have known that a JKR-free #rational fan fiction of #HarryPotter (love the work, don't care for the author) would be awesome enough to be made into both audiobooks, podcasts and a cartoon?
I'm really happy more are exposed to this work. It's _really_ good! 😄
(Triva: I learned of it in the #rakulang IRC channel, back when it was called #perl6 <3)
Recommended!
If you like the first chapters, you'll like it all!
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#Perl: older than some #programming careers, younger at heart than you think.
It’s evolved a lot since 1999 — modern features, cleaner syntax — yet it still runs code you wrote decades ago.
(And if you’re wondering: #Perl6 was renamed Raku in 2019 — it’s a sister language, not a successor.)
Curious? Returning after a long break? @shiar’s cheat sheet is a perfect quick‑scan: https://sheet.shiar.nl/perl
#coding #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #RakuLang #Perl5
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@mort You can get pretty far with #Perl 5* #RegularExpressions. Here's @perlancar’s #CPAN module based on @randalschwartz’s minimal #JSON parser as a single #regex: https://metacpan.org/pod/JSON::Decode::Regexp
Full docs on conditional #regexes, including the special `(DEFINE)` form that merlyn used: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlre#condition-yes-pattern-no-pattern
* #RakuLang hasn't been called #Perl6 for four years now. You're deadnaming the language.
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@alexstandiford Well, Jon Orwant (now at https://ai.google) infamously threw coffee mugs to light a spark under #Perl6 development at #YAPC 19100, so yes, it does tend to move the problem elsewhere.