I stumbled upon this really nice page from Ruby, describing the language from the perspective of other common programming languages:

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ruby-from-other-languages/

The page is written in a friendly tone, inviting programmers familiar with other programming languages to Ruby. No programming language is being viewed as inferior, quite the contrary: all mentioned languages are praised and even defended from haters, for example:

• "Perl is awesome. Perl’s docs are awesome. The Perl community is … awesome. For those Perlers who long for elegant OO features built-in from the beginning, Ruby may be for you."
• "Happily, it turns out that Ruby and C have a healthy symbiotic relationship. And, of course, Ruby itself is written in C."
• "Java is mature. It’s tested. And it’s fast (contrary to what the anti-Java crowd may still claim)."
• "Python is another very nice general purpose programming language."

I believe Perl could greatly benefit from having a similar page. With its friendly philosophy and TMTOWTDI, it seems natural to invite programmers from other languages, with an approach of "Don't be afraid to keep programming the way you are used to, if it works in Perl, there are no limits enforced".

Since Perl is now not a common choice for new code or for learning, it makes a lot of sense to bring over people from other languages. Especially in an age where strict conventions seem to be praised, I can see Perl becoming a source of some fresh air.

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networking constants and support functions

Changes for 2.038 - 2024-04-15

• CHANGES
• BUGFIXES

Cross-platform executor for parallel tasks executed in forked processes

Changes for 0.01 - 2024-04-13

• Initial release

data pack for Business::ISBN

Changes for 20240413.001 - 2024-04-13T19:53:52Z

• data update for 2024-04-13

Acceptance testing for JSON-Schema based validators

Changes for 1.023 - 2024-04-13T19:25:31Z

• include git location in generated results files when using a custom test directory
• updated test suite: https://github.com/json-schema-org/JSON-Schema-Test-Suite/compare/bf0360f4b7c51b8f968aabe7f3f49e12b120fc85...57617f254a6734d5c64fa86fd3b08e8799970b25

A mono repo for perl scripts and modules which WATERKIP likes

Changes for 0.003 - 2024-04-13T19:19:39Z

• Add i3-wod, workspace on demand

Find and verify functionality of the gnuplot executable.

Changes for 1.043 - 2024-04-13

• make any failure more verbose to help debugging

Hi, im working on this perl script wherein i should get all files with filename < 900000

Ex. sample_file_802856.txt sample_file_27364692.txt sample_file_385620.txt

the script should get:

sample_file_802856.txt sample_file_385620.txt

I already have the code but it’s failing on this part coz im having a hard time getting the regex for < 900000 😆

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The great new Seven!

Changes for 0.01

• First version, released on an unsuspecting world.

A SQL Database object abstraction class

Changes for v1.3.1 - 2024-04-11T22:27:49Z

• Modified method 'structure' in DB::Object::Mysql::Table to ensure all fields returned are in lowercase.

Libraries and Utilities to work with Dogecoin

Changes for 1.20240413.0031 - 2024-04-12T17:31:00-07:00

• removed unnecessary warning

test MIDI file contents

Changes for 0.02 - 2024-04-13

• Add more MIDI event test functions. Break the midi_track interface a bit. Improve the documentation.

Mo utilities.

Changes for 0.26 - 2024-04-11T23:53:29+02:00

• Add support for exponencial and extremely small numbers in check_number(). Rewrite to Scalar::Util::looks_like_number().
• Describe missing error for check_number_min() in doc.

Data objects for HTML elements.

Changes for 0.12 - 2024-04-11T23:33:27+02:00

• Add parameter 'step' to Input.
• Fix doc of Element::A.
• Fix doc of 'data_type' parameter.
• Regen MANIFEST file.

interactive terminal-based viewer for App::sdview

Changes for 0.06 - 2024-04-11

• CHANGES
• BUGFIXES

Mo country utilities.

Changes for 0.02 - 2024-04-11T22:03:15+02:00

• Add support for upper case codes.
• Fix test code.

Mojolicious Plugin for Config::Structured: provides Mojo app access to structured configuration data

Changes for 3.00 - 2024-04-11T08:54:52-05:00

• rework for Config::Structured v3
• require perl v5.26
• add config-dump mojo command

2024 TPRC Submission Date Extended thru April 20th

https://blogs.perl.org/users/oodler_577/2024/04/2024-tprc-submission-date-extended-thru-april-20th.html

Simple opinionated tool to set up a Perl distribution directory.

Changes for 0.13 - 2024-04-11

• Fix a typo in the MANIFEST.SKIP file.
• Add support to specify the keywords and no_index META directive.

This week in PSC (144) | 2024-04-11

https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2024/04/this-week-in-psc-144-2024-04-11.html

Mo country utilities.

Changes for 0.01 - 2024-04-11T15:38:58+02:00

• First version.

Check for the presence of a compiler

Changes for 0.024 - 2024-04-11T14:43:48+02:00

• Make temporary dir absolute

Hi,

I am moving to RedHat 9 from RedHat 7. I am running Apache with mod_perl.

I have installed the mod_perl package on the RedHat 9 box. I am getting this error on bit of code that I wrote:

Can't locate XSLoader.pm: /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.32/XSLoader.pm: Permission denied at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Apache2/XSLoader.pm line 22.\nBEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Apache2/XSLoader.pm line 22.\nCompilation failed in require at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Apache2/Access.pm line 24.\nBEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Apache2/Access.pm line 24. 

/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/APR/XSLoader.pm /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Apache2/XSLoader.pm /usr/share/perl5/XSLoader.pm 

thank you

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iterators for objects that know the next element

Changes for 1.148 - 2024-04-10T18:05:54Z

• need a user release for indexing?

Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities

Changes for 20240410.001 - 2024-04-10T17:51:12Z

• data update for 2024-04-10

iterators for objects that know the next element

Changes for 1.147_01 - 2024-04-10T17:42:51Z

• Try not indexing preprocess/

iterators for objects that know the next element

Changes for 1.147 - 2024-04-10T16:55:14Z

• Release again to investigate PAUSE indexing issue (#16)

Neo4j community graph database driver for Bolt and HTTP

Changes for 0.48 - 2024-04-10

• The cypher_params config option now allows 'v2' as a synonym for v2.
• Minor documentation updates.

Perl Weekly Challenge 264: Target Array

https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2024/04/perl-weekly-challenge-264-target-array.html

Or some other OO module? Or did they cook their own spice that includes Moose and custom approaches?

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Synthesizer settings librarian

Changes for 0.0047 - 2024-04-09T11:28:00Z

• Improve the specs logic.
• Improve eg/patch-visualizer.pl.
• Fix eg/synth-config-mojo.pl to use database specs.

Neo4j community graph database driver for Bolt and HTTP

Changes for 0.47 - 2024-04-09

• Returning a Result object from a managed transaction function now issues a warning that the Result may not be valid outside the function.
• Clarify in documentation that concurrent_tx is a legacy feature.
• Minor documentation fixes.
• Minor testing improvements.

A Simple base module to implement almost every RESTful API with just a few lines of configuration

Changes for 2.8

• Change: 83a1a2c4ca5a3ef6e388483c992621f1efead921 Author: Tobias Kirschstein <nupfel@users.noreply.github.com> Date : 2023-08-11 09:55:35 +0000
• Change: 81d1da85d621ba6f88942bb2a047adb8c01bd9db Author: Michael Schout <schoutm@gmail.com> Date : 2023-08-05 15:32:01 +0000
• Plus 26 releases after 2023-04-10 00:00:00 +0000.

I work in infosec, specifically in penetration testing. I learned Perl to some extent years ago when Metasploit was still written in Perl (They switched to Ruby). It seems these days that most people in my industry like Python, and some of the most important modules we use in my field are in Python. Does Perl offer any modules as comprehensive as Impacket for hacking protocols such as SMB, WMI, Kerberos, etc?

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Information about the CGI environment

Changes for 0.81 - 2024-04-09T10:08:29Z

• Use Test::Needs Added t/version.t Added t/tabs.t Mark axios/1.6.7, ias_crawler and ZoominfoBot as robots Block "/**/ORDER/**/BY/**/" in the argument Strip NUL byte poison

Perl Weekly Challenge 264: Greatest English Letter

https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2024/04/perl-weekly-challenge-264-greatest-english-letter.html

An open source web-based network management tool.

Changes for 2.075001 - 2024-04-09

• ENHANCEMENTS
• BUG FIXES

I think we need to create the next generation of Perl devs, because one day we’ll all be dead. What will Perl become if we don’t train as many people as we can?

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communicate with the i3 window manager

Changes for 0.19 - 2024-04-09

• use Carp for errors (includes stacktraces)
• introduce (preferred) RUN_COMMAND spelling
• migrate tooling to ExtUtils::MakeMaker
• implement the tick event
• introduce the sync IPC command
• introduce the GET_BINDING_STATE IPC command

INI file reader that supports make-style variable references and multiple assignment operators.

Changes for 0.16 - 2024-04-10

• Improved ans corrected POD.