After writing my first (horrifyingly bad) Perl script for the Rhino Radio project, I found myself strangely drawn to this weird and often overlooked programming language.
I’ve been slowly learning more, and the process feels like a combination of writing poetry and hitting my own head with a mallet.
As I continue reading bits of documentation and blog posts, I have been tripping over philosophical gems which work even better if I take them out of context:
The interpreter cannot sanitize away malicious creativity completely. - CosmicLearn.com
While not as succinct as “Hack The Planet!”, I still find myself wanting to creatively thwart ‘The Interpreter’ at every opportunity.
I recently read a blog post about regex pronouns. I’m tickled to have learned another way to express mine:
/t?he(y|m)?/
After many entertaining and educational mistakes, I wrote a first draft for a todotxt file handling program I’ve dubbed listo. It’s my first “real” bit of coding, and I’m enjoying feeling both wizardly and baffled at the same time.
You can find listo’s public repository here.
One of the delights in having diverse interests are the silly moments where the edges overlap. In trying to wrap my head around the Perlish way of doing things, I rewrote some old shell scripts. One of them was a ridiculous Shakespearean insult generator called thou.