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marocddot

marocddot@hachyderm.io

<p>He/Him. Old school hacker (40+ years hacking code/hardware); crafter of crafty firmware; occasional artist, cook and lover of intense music. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lisp</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>awk</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>perl</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Forth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Forth</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/oberon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>oberon</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AdaLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AdaLang</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Lua" class="menti

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    &quot;...the street finds its own uses for things&quot; (William Gibson, Burning Chrome) is probably my favorite literary line to quote, regarding use of tech. It&#39;s something of a mantra I repeat to remind myself that every technology created, whether through academia or big evil industry, will eventually be co-opted by the people and put to uses never intended. This was the essence of (old school) hacking. My street tools have been #perl #forth #awk and #tcl

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    Zero Dependency Programming. Do you have code you can give me that does something useful but doesn&#39;t require &quot;installing&quot; stuff to run it? Let&#39;s just talk about BSD and Linux based systems. You email me this script. It will save the world from a rogue LLM by issuing some obscure kill switch sequence to a UDP port. We have minutes to save the world. I try to run it and... it depends on version xyz of some component that may be in an internet repo and it may have dependenc...

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    Interesting realization/observation (to me at least). My MacBook (Tahoe 26.1), OpenBSD (7.9) and various Linux laptops, SBCs, etc all have a fairly modern Perl (5.xx) installed by default. I start wondering if I should be writing more of my portable (no dependency) stuff in #perl

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    I miss Perl If a computer language could be hardcore punk, it would be #perl. It annoyed the hell out of developers when I wrote code in it. Over 27 years ago I wrote AFT https://maplefish.com/todd/aft.html (or you can &quot;apt install aft&quot; under Ubuntu) It&#39;s been 15 years since I released the latest version and it still works on any basic Perl distro.