Perl is the most useful language ever

Posted by Skrud at Thursday, August 26th 2004 at 8:05am

So I haven’t blogged in awhile… really, there’s nothing worthwhile to say, so I’ll say it anyway… Lately I’ve been up to absolutely nothing. I went to a couple of birthday celebrations (fun!) and thoroughly enjoyed myself at Au Dragon Rough (a medeval themed restaurant – hey! that would’ve been something to blog about)… But now I decided I should back into blogging, as school is starting soon and I’ll need to be using this space for random outbursts of frustration. That’s what blogging is for, if you ask me… (And randomness, we all love that).

<p>On the anime front, I watched <a href="http://kasshin.net:2000/kuraki/">K-Fans</a> fansub of <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=3455">Re:Cutie Honey</a> OAV and was totally blown away. Imagine, if you will, a combination of the cheesy 60&#8217;s Batman &#38; Robin TV Show, Samurai Jack / Spy Groove, and something completely and insanely Japanese in the 70&#8217;s, and then shove it all into trash compactor and crush all of those into a little cube, and then take the cube and smash yourself in the head with it, you will begin to imagine the awe-inspiring awesomeness of this <span class="caps">OAV</span>. It is essentially a parallel to the <a href="http://skrud.net/index.php?p=195">live-action movie</a> (more like an alternate telling) and it is simply incredible.</p>


<p>Back to my point, I&#8217;ve been reading the <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/">Camel Book</a> which I&#8217;ve finally acquired form the Concordia library and am thoroughly enjoying both its humour and it&#8217;s usefulness. In the past couple of weeks I&#8217;ve written more small (and extremely useful) programs in perl than I have in any other language. It basically takes the power of &#8220;professional&#8221; languages like C and combines it with the intuition of shell scripting. It is at once both simple and elegant and dirty and hacky.  I&#8217;m having so much fun using Perl :)</p>


<p>Oh, and for those of you that really care (I know &#8211; no one does), the <span class="caps">IRC</span> channel is back: #skrud@irc.rizon.net. Why rizon.net? Because that&#8217;s where all those anime music channels are located. (And that&#8217;s where I usually am, leeching and serving&#8230; unfortunately due to firewall issues and <a href="http://www.xchat.org">X-Chat&#8217;s</a> lack of a &#8220;dccserver&#8221; command, as well as <a href="http://tuxserver.sf.net">TuxServe</a> (despite being an <strong>excellent</strong> script) lacking a firewall workaround (see aforementioned dccserver lack) I need to run mIRC (blech) through <a href="http://www.winehq.com"><span class="caps">WINE</span></a> in order to serve).</p>


<p>I&#8217;ve also been reading a lot of books. Remind me to blog about those later.</p>

Tags: anime, random, tech