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perlancar's blog
Personal blog · perlancar.wordpress.comprogramming
perlancar's blog is a personal blog at perlancar.wordpress.com about programming. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Dwindling CPAN Releases”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is a remark about Perl's popularity and backward compatibility in a thread on programming in 1987 versus today. It does not discuss the blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
#perl #programming
Most-linked posts?
- Dwindling CPAN Releases2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-01
What Hacker News says?
> Well, duh :) Perl's still more popular than people think. There is no way to define the word "popular" that makes this a true statement with regard to Perl 5 or any future development thereof shooting for backwards compatibility. -- I hate to be the negative nancy in this regard, but I seriously think that this is a cold and hard truth that is causing a lot of suffering because of people who fail to acknowledge it…
Comment linking /2019/08/01/dwindling-cpan-releases/
on “Programming in 1987 versus Today”Submitted Dwindling CPAN Releases as a story · 141 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Log::ger, a low-overhead Perl logging module as a story · 3 points
HN discussion