@dragonsidedd “Sigils have many benefits, not least of which is that variables can be interpolated into strings with no additional syntax. #Perl scripts are also easy to read (for people who have bothered to learn Perl!) because the nouns stand out from verbs. And new verbs can be added to the language without breaking old scripts.”

—‘Programming Perl’ by brian d foy, Tom Christiansen, et al.

#KindleQuotes

@sjfloat When you get tired of escaping #shell metacharacters in your #awk and #sed pipelines, when you get tired of inventing new ways to pass structured data between small tools as text streams, #Perl is there.

Of course, you can take that last point too far. See #PowerShell or even #jq, where half the “fun” is marshalling *between* bespoke data structures.

I hope your #awk script only uses the subset supported by a2p: https://metacpan.org/pod/App::a2p

Also, it hasn’t been included with #Perl for eight years. @leont has been looking for a new maintainer for three.

The #Perl 5 Raptor is @creativecommons CC-BY-SA 4.0 licensed by @kraih, available to anyone under the same terms with credit: https://github.com/kraih/perl-raptor

The camel illustration is an @OReillyMedia trademark. No one else can use that image, nor use any camel on their Perl books.

@PerlRakuFoundation allows specific usage of their onion trademark: https://www.perlfoundation.org/trademarks.html

GitHub - kraih/perl-raptor: :dragon_face: Perl 5 Raptor

:dragon_face: Perl 5 Raptor. Contribute to kraih/perl-raptor development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@seism0saurus @creativecommons @kraih @OReillyMedia @PerlRakuFoundation You can read much more about #Perl's logo situation in this blog from Thibault Duponchelle: https://dev.to/thibaultduponchelle/the-perl-complex-topic-of-logos-3161

He also asked @timoreilly to #FreeTheCamel: https://dev.to/thibaultduponchelle/open-letter-to-tim-oreilly-to-free-the-perl-camel-k3i

Open Letter To Tim O'Reilly To Free The Perl Camel

Dear Tim, I've been thinking about this letter for a while now. There was a time (an eternity in IT...

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