Perl Dabbling.
Feb. 20th, 2006 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupI've not been posting much. I've spent the last several days dabbling in perl scripts and php-based wiki configuration. My test wiki is ALMOST the way I want it now. All of the old files have been converted over and I've been finding things out about how the wiki documentation differs from its actual behavior. So far I'm 90% of the way to where I'd be willing to let folks play with it.
As I've been playing with the legacy perl code from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sps, its become clear that its a LOT older than the 5-10 years I assumed. Having looked at his production perl code from 1994, this is very different. In any case, it has occurred to me that sps was half-way to inventing the wiki back then, which is around when WikiWikiWeb was first published (although it wasn't well known for a few more years). Too bad the project was put on hold for various business-related reasons. Sometimes I think the big inventions are made by folks who are just lucky enough to have enough time while not burdened by other crap.
In other news, I've been looking at the perl code for CPANPLUS because it has a bug in it somewhere in which it sometimes invokes the default perl interpreter to install a module. This is a problem when you have multiple instances of Perl (as I do) and you need it to use the same perl its running under to do the install. The code is huge, but its a) very nicely written and b) well-commented so I have hopes of finding the bug soon.
All of that is in aid of me wanting to write a very simple Perl CGI module to act as an e-mail to RSS interface (anyone know of one that already exists, speak up so I don't have to re-invent the wheel here.)
As I've been playing with the legacy perl code from
sps, its become clear that its a LOT older than the 5-10 years I assumed. Having looked at his production perl code from 1994, this is very different. In any case, it has occurred to me that sps was half-way to inventing the wiki back then, which is around when WikiWikiWeb was first published (although it wasn't well known for a few more years). Too bad the project was put on hold for various business-related reasons. Sometimes I think the big inventions are made by folks who are just lucky enough to have enough time while not burdened by other crap.In other news, I've been looking at the perl code for CPANPLUS because it has a bug in it somewhere in which it sometimes invokes the default perl interpreter to install a module. This is a problem when you have multiple instances of Perl (as I do) and you need it to use the same perl its running under to do the install. The code is huge, but its a) very nicely written and b) well-commented so I have hopes of finding the bug soon.
All of that is in aid of me wanting to write a very simple Perl CGI module to act as an e-mail to RSS interface (anyone know of one that already exists, speak up so I don't have to re-invent the wheel here.)
