Hi, I recently got an offer for Senior SWE (current title at my company now) for a company that heavily utilizes Perl. I was wondering if folks from this community could offer some insight on what it's like working with Perl and also what, if any, potential long-term career implications are of becoming a Perl developer? Particularly I'm worried of pigeon-holing myself since Perl is not as heavily used in todays age and this company does not make use of modern cloud tools and deployments.

I am a Java developer (5 YOE) at a enterprise software company that is deployed in GCP. We are pretty regularly adopting new technologies so I'm gaining some valuable and relevant industry experience here but I am looking for a change and more opportunity to lead projects and mentor junior engineers.

The company seems good, great WLB, I liked the manager, and with the bonus (base is roughly the same) it would be about a ~8% TC increase plus a lot more stock (monopoly money, private RSUs).

Does anyone have experience transitioning from a Perl based company to a cloud based company with a more modern tech stack? Is this a backwards direction for me, should I continue with my Java development and instead look for opportunities that will offer more marketable skills?

Any input is appreciated, thank you for reading.

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Hi! Asking for a wisdom here...

We have a module that modifies signal handler $SIG{__DIE__} to log information and to die afterwards. Hundreds of scripts relied on this module which worked fine in perl 5.10.1.

Recently we had the opportunity to install several Perl versions but unfortunately a large number of scripts that used to work with Perl 5.10.1 now behave differently:

• Failed in 5.14.4: /home/dev/perl-5.14.4/bin/perl -wc test.pl RECEIVED SIGNAL - S_IFFIFO is not a valid Fcntl macro at /home/dev/perl-5.14.4/lib/5.14.4/File/stat.pm line 41
• Worked without changes in 5.26.3: /home/dev/perl-5.26.3/bin/perl -wc test.pl test.pl syntax OK
• Worked without changes in 5.38.2: /home/dev/perl-5.38.2/bin/perl -wc test.pl test.pl syntax OK

Many of the scripts can only be updated to 5.14.4 due to the huge jumps between 5.10 and 3.58; But we are stuck on that failures.

Was there an internal Perl change in 5.14 which cause the failures but works on other recent versions without any update on the scripts?

Cheerio!

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Sanity-check calling context

Changes for 0.04

• (no code changes)
• Switched to MIT license.
• Switched README from POD to Markdown.
• Removed Travis CI.

Sort lines of text by a SortKey module

Changes for 0.001 - 2024-03-07

• First release.

Sort lines of text by a Comparer module

Changes for 0.002 - 2024-03-07

• No functional changes.
• [doc] Mention some related links.

An assortment of date-/time-related CLI utilities

Changes for 0.128 - 2024-03-07

• [clis strftime, strftimeq] Use localtime() instead of gmtime(). We can still show UTC using "TZ=UTC strftime ...".

I understand that many disagree with this statement, but it really makes it easier to build distributions for people who not monks. Wish the documentation was more detailed

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Sah schemas related to BCA (Bank Central Asia) bank

Changes for 0.002 - 2024-04-03

• Rename module/dist Sah-Schema{s,Bundle}-* following rename of Sah-Schema{s,Bundle} (for visual clarity and consistency with naming of other bundles).

search nested hashref/arrayref structures using JSONPath

Changes for 1.0.5 - 2024-04-22T16:10:46-05:00

simulating paper and pencil techniques for basic arithmetic operations

Changes for 0.01 - 2024-04

• First version, with the four basic operations, plus square-root, GCD and radix conversion. And HTML rendering

Use a type to validate values in a deep comparison.

Changes for 1.0.1 - 2024-04-22

• Add Test2::Tools::Type

An open source web-based network management tool.

Changes for 2.076000 - 2024-04-22

• NEW FEATURES
• ENHANCEMENTS
• BUG FIXES

Silverpeak Orchestrator REST API client library

Changes for 0.011000 - 2024-04-22T17:58:39+02:00

• add support for version 9.3+ API endpoints

A module that performs semantic similarity in PXF/BFF data structures and beyond (JSON|YAML)

Changes for 0.07 - 2024-04-22T00:00:00Z

• Excluded keys with {} or [] values (e.g. subject.vitalStatus: {})
• Precompiled regex patterns where possible
• Schema validation errors related to weights are now directed to STDERR
• Added support for variables with non-word characters (e.g., "Survey.Timestamp.1")

Pango style markup formatting

Changes for 0.036 - 2024-04-22

• Introducing struts. Update SYNOPOSIS example to modern PDF::API2 conventions. Fix/enhance drawing of brackgrounds. Fix problem with wrongly calculated underlining.

My environment is perl/5.18.2 on CentOs 7

I'm trying to use a SWIG generated module in perl, which has a c plus plus backend. The backend.cpp sets an environment variable, $MY_ENV_VAR =1

But when I try to access this in perl, using $ENV{MY_ENV_VAR} this is undef.

However doing something like print echo $MY_ENV_VAR works

So the variable is set in the process, but it's not reflected automatically since nothing updates the $ENV data structure.

I'm assuming it may work using some getEnv like mechanism, but is there a way to reset/ refresh the $ENV that it rebuilds itself from the current environment?

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By default cpanm drops Perl modules into ~/perl5. How do I tell cpanm to use a different location, such as ~/.local/share/perl5 instead?

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Get stock and mutual fund quotes from various exchanges

Changes for 1.61_01 - 2024-04-21T17:50:16-07:00

• YahooWeb.pm - Issue #377. Modified YahooWeb to account for changes from Yahoo.

Sah schemas related to SortKey

Changes for 0.002 - 2024-03-07

• Rename module/dist Sah-Schema{s,Bundle}-SortKey.

Perl Data Language

Changes for 2.088 - 2024-04-22

• Slatec::ch{ic,sp} work arrays now [t]
• add Slatec::bvalu
• add Func::{pchip,spline}, and a demo
• add Ufunc::diff2
• extra ) on end of Pars now an error
• PP dim sizes can be =CALC(...) instead of explicit RedoDimsCode
• PP add loop(n=start:end:inc) idiom to stop not at end and have non-1 inc
• updated README.md - thanks @falsifian
• support T_PTROBJ in typemap

an interactive plotting widget and library for PDL and Prima

Changes for 0.21 - 2024-04-22

• demo now only loads Prima when run, reducing perldl problems

demonstrate PDL::Graphics::PLplot capabilities

Changes for 0.84 - 2024-04-22

• add perldl demo
• fix plFreeGrid to use free that matches the allocator
• pl{Alloc,Free}{,2d}Grid error if not match allocating and freeing routine
• minimum PDL 2.083 due to output OtherPars

SAML bindings and protocol implementation

Changes for 0.79 - 2024-04-21T18:13:48Z

• Compatibility Deprecation Warning
• Significant Changes
• Detailed Change Log

Validate HTTP requests and responses against an OpenAPI v3.1 document

Changes for 0.062 - 2024-04-21T18:11:43Z

• BREAKING CHANGE: operation_path is dropped from the populated $options hash in validate_request, validate_response, and find_path, and replaced with path_item_uri
• "servers" entries are now allowed in openapi documents, but they are not yet considered when matching URIs to paths

Plack search application.

Changes for 0.05 - 2024-04-21T17:53:19+02:00

• Add 'tags_after' parameter.

Fast Perl SSG: now with automatic Language Translation via OCI and translate.pl. Check it out at

https://github.com/SunStarSys/orion

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GitHub - SunStarSys/orion: SunStar Systems' Orion Enterprise Wiki SSG

SunStar Systems' Orion Enterprise Wiki SSG. Contribute to SunStarSys/orion development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Tags helper for table view.

Changes for 0.06 - 2024-04-21T17:26:14+02:00

• Fix of setting of table data. Copy in this time.

Tags helper for CPAN::Changes object.

Changes for 0.04 - 2024-04-21T16:06:08+02:00

• Add trivial Changes file and test on it.
• Fix output on ex1.changes test file.

parses .pm file as PAUSE does

Changes for 0.47 - 2024-04-21

• Improve class detection

Plack application for running Tags::HTML objects.

Changes for 0.17 - 2024-04-21T12:34:17+02:00

• Add test for 'css_data'.
• Rewrite examples in doc to version with indented output.

Perl extension for finding the memory usage of Perl variables

Changes for 0.83_50 - 2024-04-21

• patch from Slaven:
• CvOUTSIDE is again set on all cloned subs [CPAN #149902]

An I3 workspace loader

Changes for 0.002 - 2024-04-19T22:15:56Z

• Update documentation

Perl extension for Package URL (aka "purl")

Changes for 2.10 - 2024-04-19

• Improved the cpan PURL type to be compatible with the 'PURL-TYPES' specification (giterlizzi/perl-URI-PackageURL#8 - https://github.com/package-url/purl-spec/blob/master/PURL-TYPES.rst)
• Added "luarocks" PURL type support
• Improved test suite (giterlizzi/perl-URI-PackageURL#11)
• Renamed CLI package in "URI::PackageURL::App"
• Changed JSON module pre-requisite to "JSON::PP" to be compatible with CPAN Toolchain (giterlizzi/perl-URI-PackageURL#12)

Parse plain English date/time range strings

Changes for v1.0.1 - 2024-04-19T16:50:33Z

• Update README (Andrew Hewus Fresh)
• Pull request #2: SM-4807 (James Hammer)
• SM-4807 Add POD for new features (James Hammer)
• SM-4807 Correct thirteenths to thirteenth typo (James Hammer)

EPP client code for Nominet

Changes for 0.09_01 - 2024-04-19

• Remove the workaround from 0.08_01 as upstream now patched

Constants for urn:oasis SAML2 implementations

Changes for 0.005 - 2024-04-19T15:37:46Z

• Add NAMEID_UNSPECIFIED and NAMEID_DEFAULT to the module. NAMEID_DEFAULT is an alias for NAMEID_UNSPECIFIED

Im working on a script to test using a jump server to reach remote devices.

I'm able to connect to the jump server using Net::SSH::Expect, however, I'm not sure how to then ssh to a remote device (network element).

Is there a way to create that ssh to the remote device inside the jump server's connection?

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First things first, I am a data engineer but have little experience in Perl. I've been able to make some easy updates to scripts in the past but this one is a bit tougher.

I have been asked to update a Perl cgi web app that someone wrote ages ago that is used to view and manipulate text files. Currently it is hosted on server (X) and manipulates the files on that same server. However, we have to have backups/mirrors of the data on a dev server and another prod sever (Y). I.e., if I push the button to move the file to a different folder, it should do that on all three servers instead of just X. I added code to do this, referencing the additional servers with their UNC names, but I just get an error "No such file or directory" (which is not true). Googling has suggested that there may be an issue with permissions, but I can bring up the Y and DEV servers from a windows file explorer using the same path so I don't think that is necessarily the issue.

Example: Here we are trying to copy the file with a letter appended a given number of times. It works fine on the X server, its when trying to make it also work on the Y and DEV servers I get an error.

our $DIR_X = "\\\\serverX\\folder\\subfolder" ; our $DIR_Y = "\\\\serverY\\folder\\subfolder"; our $DIR_DEV = "\\\\serverDEV\\folder\\subfolder"; . . . }elsif ($query->param('action') eq 'split' && $query->param('fileNum') ne "") { my $fileNum $query->param('fileNum'); my $fileX=$DIR_X . "\\" . $fileNum . ".txt"; my $fileY $DIR_Y . "\\" . $fileNum . ".txt"; my $fileDEV = $DIR_DEV . "\\" . $fileNum . ".txt"; my $splitNbr = $query->param('splitNbr'); my @letters1("a".. "z"); for (my $i = 0; $i < $splitNbr; $i++) { my $FileNew_X = $DIR_X . "\\" $fileNum. $letters[$i]=.txt"; my $FileNew_Y = $DIR_Y . "\\" $fileNum. $letters[$i]=.txt"; my $FileNew_DEV = $DIR_DEV . "\\" $fileNum. $letters[$i]=.txt"; copy($fileX, $FileNew_X) or die "WARNING: copy failed: $!\n"; ---->>>>>ERROR AT NEXT LINE copy($fileY, $FileNew_Y) or die "WARNING: copy failed: $!\n"; copy($fileDEV, $FileNew_DEV) or die "WARNING: copy failed: $!\n"; } 

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Tagged Based Exporting

Changes for 0.07 - 2024-04-16T11:35:06-04:00

• PORTABILITY

Installs noop handlers to disable Mojolicious sessions

Changes for 0.01 - 2024-04-10T12:47:08-05:00

• First public release

Mojolicious Plugin that wraps Mojolicious::Plugin::Cron for job configurability

Changes for 0.01 - 2024-04-12T09:44:22-05:00

• initial release