Re^2: Who's still around?

[stevieb]

Please keep doing so daily.

I would love to hear about your hobbies! It's really nice to hear that people still have hobbies in Perl. Honestly... I mostly get put down for my Perl hobbies, even though I write wrappers that are current for today's standards... NHL, Tesla, Raspberry Pi, whatever. Fuck anyone who says Perl is dead... they say that, and I write software to say :P

[herveus]

Howdy!

I have several distinct hobbies that I use Perl to support.

I'm a tablet weaver, and I cooked up Weaving::Tablet for pattern drafting. Lately I've added (but not published) scripts that render patterns in SVG to get them into print form.

I also maintain an heraldic database in the SCA (Morsulus Herald, if that means anything), and the codebase I inherited was in Perl and large parts of it remain intact 25 years later. It's clear that it was originally written in Perl 4. I've modernized what I needed to and written more code for my purposes and moved the database into a SQLite database.