Softpanorama Perl Bulletin, 2005

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NEWS CONTENTS

• 20050729 : Open Perl IDE is an integrated development environment for writing and debugging Perl scripts ( Jul 29, 2005 )
• 20050715 : perl.com Ten Essential Development Practices ( perl.com Ten Essential Development Practices, Jul 15, 2005 )
• 20050701 : Perl 5.8 Documentation - BXref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs ( Perl 5.8 Documentation - BXref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs, Jul 1, 2005 )
• 20050102 : ExecPerl - Utilities for executing perl scripts in vim online ( ExecPerl - Utilities for executing perl scripts in vim online, Jan 2, 2005 )
• 20050102 : perl_synwrite.vim - checks Perl syntax before allowing file write vim online ( perl_synwrite.vim - checks Perl syntax before allowing file write vim online, Jan 2, 2005 )
• 20050102 : perl.vim - Perl compiler script vim online ( perl.vim - Perl compiler script vim online, Jan 2, 2005 )

Old News ;-)

[Jul 29, 2005] Open Perl IDE is an integrated development environment for writing and debugging Perl scripts

Works with any standard perl distribution under Windows 95/98/NT/2000.

This software is written in Delphi 5 Object Pascal and Perl and it is OpenSource, distributed under Mozilla Public Licence 1.1 and hosted by SourceForge.

Please visit our project page to get further information.

Now, take a look at some screenshots, read the User Manual to get a more detailed description of Open Perl IDE or download the latest release (Version 1.0).

The new release 1.0 is the first non-beta version of Open Perl IDE and fixes most of the bugs reported for previous releases. However, some of the changes are much more than simple bugfixes:

• Better syntax coloring by using a new highlighter component.
• Important debugger improvements, including better support for huge arrays.
• Previous instance detection on program start.
• Several minor HelpViewer and Configuration enhancements.

For any information, questions, remarks or bug reports, please send a message to Jürgen Güntherodt.

[Jul 15, 2005] perl.com Ten Essential Development Practices

The following ten tips come from Perl Best Practices, a new book of Perl coding and development guidelines by Damian Conway.

[Jul 1, 2005] Perl 5.8 Documentation - BXref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs

The B::Xref module is used to generate a cross reference listing of all definitions and uses of variables, subroutines and formats in a Perl program. It is implemented as a backend for the Perl compiler.

The report generated is in the following format:

File filename1 Subroutine subname1 Package package1 object1 line numbers object2 line numbers ... Package package2 ...

Each File section reports on a single file. Each Subroutine section reports on a single subroutine apart from the special cases "(definitions)" and "(main)". These report, respectively, on subroutine definitions found by the initial symbol table walk and on the main part of the program or module external to all subroutines.

The report is then grouped by the Package of each variable, subroutine or format with the special case "(lexicals)" meaning lexical variables. Each object name (implicitly qualified by its containing Package) includes its type character(s) at the beginning where possible. Lexical variables are easier to track and even included dereferencing information where possible.

The line numbers are a comma separated list of line numbers (some preceded by code letters) where that object is used in some way. Simple uses aren't preceded by a code letter. Introductions (such as where a lexical is first defined with my) are indicated with the letter "i". Subroutine and method calls are indicated by the character "&". Subroutine definitions are indicated by "s" and format definitions by "f".

Option words are separated by commas (not whitespace) and follow the usual conventions of compiler backend options.

-oFILENAME

Directs output to FILENAME instead of standard output.

-r

Raw output. Instead of producing a human-readable report, outputs a line in machine-readable form for each definition/use of a variable/sub/format.

-d

Don't output the "(definitions)" sections.

-D[tO]

(Internal) debug options, probably only useful if -r included. The t option prints the objl&

[Jan 2, 2005] ExecPerl - Utilities for executing perl scripts in vim online

Provides the following commands:

:ExecPerl script_name
This will execute script_name using the perl
interpreter.

:ExecPerlMore
This will execute script_name using the perl
interpreter. If the output would scroll past the end
of the screen, execution pauses and waits for a
keystroke before continuing.

:ExecPerlDump
This will ask you for an output file and then
execute script_name using the perl interpreter. The
output from the script is dumped to the file that you
entered when you were prompted. You may press enter
instead of entering a file name to accept the default
filename.

Also, The following keys are mapped by default. You'll have to
comment them if you don't want this behavior:

<F5>: ExecPerl the current file being edited
<C-F5>: ExecPerlMore the current file being edited
<S-F5>: ExecPerlDump the current file being edited

[Jan 2, 2005] perl_synwrite.vim - checks Perl syntax before allowing file write vim online

This plugin causes write attempts to fail if the contents of the buffer produce an error when run through "perl -c"

The plugin uses can use autocommands for the BufWriteCmd and FileWriteCmd events, but by default only provides a :Write command to check-then-write.

install details

Put this file in one of the locations described in :help ftplugin such as "~/.vim/after/ftplugin"; if you want autocommands, which are quirky, define perl_synwrite_au = 1

[Jan 2, 2005] perl.vim - Perl compiler script vim online

This is compiler script that runs perl -Wc and parses all error and warnings. For more information how to use compilers in VIM read help.

This version has workaround with redirecting stderr on windows platform so it can run either on unixes or windows.

Enjoy. Lukas

install details

Just put in the $VIMRUNTIME/compiler directory and run :make.

Etc

Society

Groupthink : Two Party System as Polyarchy : Corruption of Regulators : Bureaucracies : Understanding Micromanagers and Control Freaks : Toxic Managers :   Harvard Mafia : Diplomatic Communication : Surviving a Bad Performance Review : Insufficient Retirement Funds as Immanent Problem of Neoliberal Regime : PseudoScience : Who Rules America : Neoliberalism  : The Iron Law of Oligarchy : Libertarian Philosophy

Quotes

War and Peace : Skeptical Finance : John Kenneth Galbraith :Talleyrand : Oscar Wilde : Otto Von Bismarck : Keynes : George Carlin : Skeptics : Propaganda  : SE quotes : Language Design and Programming Quotes : Random IT-related quotes :  Somerset Maugham : Marcus Aurelius : Kurt Vonnegut : Eric Hoffer : Winston Churchill : Napoleon Bonaparte : Ambrose Bierce :  Bernard Shaw : Mark Twain Quotes

Bulletin:

Vol 25, No.12 (December, 2013) Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks The efficient markets hypothesis : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2013 : Unemployment Bulletin, 2010 :  Vol 23, No.10 (October, 2011) An observation about corporate security departments : Slightly Skeptical Euromaydan Chronicles, June 2014 : Greenspan legacy bulletin, 2008 : Vol 25, No.10 (October, 2013) Cryptolocker Trojan (Win32/Crilock.A) : Vol 25, No.08 (August, 2013) Cloud providers as intelligence collection hubs : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : Inequality Bulletin, 2009 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Copyleft Problems Bulletin, 2004 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Energy Bulletin, 2010 : Malware Protection Bulletin, 2010 : Vol 26, No.1 (January, 2013) Object-Oriented Cult : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2011 : Vol 23, No.11 (November, 2011) Softpanorama classification of sysadmin horror stories : Vol 25, No.05 (May, 2013) Corporate bullshit as a communication method  : Vol 25, No.06 (June, 2013) A Note on the Relationship of Brooks Law and Conway Law

History:

Fifty glorious years (1950-2000): the triumph of the US computer engineering : Donald Knuth : TAoCP and its Influence of Computer Science : Richard Stallman : Linus Torvalds  : Larry Wall  : John K. Ousterhout : CTSS : Multix OS Unix History : Unix shell history : VI editor : History of pipes concept : Solaris : MS DOS :  Programming Languages History : PL/1 : Simula 67 : C : History of GCC development :  Scripting Languages : Perl history   : OS History : Mail : DNS : SSH : CPU Instruction Sets : SPARC systems 1987-2006 : Norton Commander : Norton Utilities : Norton Ghost : Frontpage history : Malware Defense History : GNU Screen : OSS early history

Classic books:

The Peter Principle : Parkinson Law : 1984 : The Mythical Man-Month :  How to Solve It by George Polya : The Art of Computer Programming : The Elements of Programming Style : The Unix Hater’s Handbook : The Jargon file : The True Believer : Programming Pearls : The Good Soldier Svejk : The Power Elite

Most popular humor pages:

Manifest of the Softpanorama IT Slacker Society : Ten Commandments of the IT Slackers Society : Computer Humor Collection : BSD Logo Story : The Cuckoo's Egg : IT Slang : C++ Humor : ARE YOU A BBS ADDICT? : The Perl Purity Test : Object oriented programmers of all nations : Financial Humor : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : The Most Comprehensive Collection of Editor-related Humor : Programming Language Humor : Goldman Sachs related humor : Greenspan humor : C Humor : Scripting Humor : Real Programmers Humor : Web Humor : GPL-related Humor : OFM Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : IDS Humor : "Linux Sucks" Humor : Russian Musical Humor : Best Russian Programmer Humor : Microsoft plans to buy Catholic Church : Richard Stallman Related Humor : Admin Humor : Perl-related Humor : Linus Torvalds Related humor : PseudoScience Related Humor : Networking Humor : Shell Humor : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2012 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2013 : Java Humor : Software Engineering Humor : Sun Solaris Related Humor : Education Humor : IBM Humor : Assembler-related Humor : VIM Humor : Computer Viruses Humor : Bright tomorrow is rescheduled to a day after tomorrow : Classic Computer Humor

The Last but not Least Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand ~Archibald Putt. Ph.D

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