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mfrager | 9 years ago

Perl. A language that is still ahead of its time. I have a system for building RPMs of CPAN modules and their dependencies automatically.

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krylon|9 years ago

I have written a number of CGI scripts (in Perl, of course) at work, and my relationship with it oscillates back and forth between love and hate.

I would like to replace it very much, because I don't like Perl 5's type system very much (and something like Moose is overkill, IMHO, for a 500-line-script).

But it's just so damn useful, and most of the time I can get something to work faster than with Python or Go. So I might not love Perl, but you could say I respect it very much.

dice|9 years ago

>I have a system for building RPMs of CPAN modules and their dependencies automatically.

I would be interested in this: is it open source?

stevekemp|9 years ago

It shouldn't be too hard to write that, I know on Debian systems it is trivially easy to package CPAN modules as Debian packages, via dh-make-perl.