[DFW.pm] Is Perl Like Shell Script?

[Tommy Butler]

That is gnome terminal, the default terminal for Debian Linux (Ubuntu
Linux comes from Debian).

Inside the terminal I'm running vim as the editor, which produces the
lovely color coding.  Vim offers many color schemes.

You can run vim on mac and windows also, but if vim isn't your thing,
you can try sublime (a new and popular editor that isn't modal like vim,
and is therefore less powerful but easier to learn).  Sublime also
offers color coding.

Another alternative is Padre, which is an editor written explicitly for
Perl programmers.  Padre is also modeless.  I prefer the power of vim to
any of the others, and I would never steer a fellow programmer toward
emacs, so I won't mention it beyond that ;-)

--Tommy Butler

On 10/28/2013 09:39 PM, Alex M (Coyo) wrote:
> I love that virtual terminal. It's very shiny. How did you get the
> syntax highlighting?
>
> John Fields wrote:
>>
>> That is entirely cromulent code!
>> (I just added cromulent to my phone's dictionary).
>>
>> Looking forward to playing with this, I think I misunderstood the
>> scope of POE!
>>
>> On Oct 28, 2013 6:07 PM, "Tommy Butler" <dfwpm at internetalias.net
>> <mailto:dfwpm at internetalias.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Just for fun I turned my 22*** line IRC greeter bot into a 52
>>     line IRC spellchecker bot (screenshot below). 
>>
>>     This bot is currently logged into irc.perl.org
>>     <http://irc.perl.org> taking requests in the #bot-test channel.
>>
>>     Like greeter bot, spellchecker bot is in the DFW Perl Mongers irc
>>     bot repo on github.
>>     <https://github.com/dfwperl/dfwbot/blob/master/dfw_spellerbot.pl>
>>     /***line counts do not include comment lines/
>>
>>     <snip large screenshot>
>>
>>     --Tommy Butler
>>
>>     On 10/27/2013 05:21 PM, Tommy Butler wrote:
>>>     So I wrote an irc bot <https://github.com/dfwperl/dfwbot>,
>>>     tested it out several times, and put it up on github in all of 2
>>>     hours this afternoon.  It's built on Bot::BasicBot
>>>     <https://metacpan.org/pod/Bot::BasicBot>.  Bot::BasicBot is
>>>     *gasp* built on POE <https://metacpan.org/pod/POE>.  /*This bot
>>>     is neat and I think this would be very fun to extend.*/
>>>
>>>     I would love play around with this concept together -- to use
>>>     git/github to clone, fork, and hack together our own individual
>>>     bots and try them out in real time together at the next
>>>     meeting.  We could make them talk to each other, do spell
>>>     checks, wolfram alpha lookups, shorten URLs, fetch stock
>>>     performance stats, or any number of things.
>>>
>>>     What do you think?  Feel free to disagree.
>>>
>>>     --Tommy Butler
>>>
>>>     On 10/25/2013 03:24 PM, John Fields wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Prolly POE.  And yes using an event-driven manager framework to
>>>>     call a IRC module is probably over kill.
>>>>
>>>>     :)
>>>>
>>>>     On Oct 25, 2013 3:21 PM, "Stephen Wylie"
>>>>     <stev-o at u.northwestern.edu <mailto:stev-o at u.northwestern.edu>>
>>>>     wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         AOE... are you talking ATA over Ethernet?  Age of Empires?
>>>>          The secret of the Alpha Phi fraternity?
>>>>
>>>>         Clueless & floundering on Google,
>>>>         Stephen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:01 PM, A.J. Maurin
>>>>         <coyo at darkdna.net <mailto:coyo at darkdna.net>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>             Well BASHing together an IRC bot out of netcat and
>>>>             quick-and-dirty oneliners of sed and awk are easy for
>>>>             me, because I'm used to it.
>>>>
>>>>             Anything beyond a quick one-liner of Perl looks
>>>>             daunting to me.
>>>>
>>>>             I dislike using standard libraries. To me, it's
>>>>             learning how to use other people's code. Reinventing
>>>>             the wheel my butt.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>             On 10/23/2013 12:00 PM, John Fields wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>             Shaun, Net::IRC is deprecated. I KNOW!  Says try
>>>>>             Bot::BasicBot
>>>>>
>>>>>             Alex, look at this BasicBot page and let us know how
>>>>>             difficult it looks!  Not very compared to BASHing it
>>>>>             out. :)
>>>>>
>>>>>             http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2008/02/25/writing-an-irc-bot/
>>>>>
>>>>>             Writing an IRC bot from scratch in the next Monger
>>>>>             meeting sounds like fun.  We can review the random
>>>>>             password generator code progress too. What say Ye? 
>>>>>             (Futurama Bot reference... Hehehe)
>>>>>
>>>>>             On Oct 20, 2013 4:53 PM, "A.J. Maurin"
>>>>>             <coyo at darkdna.net <mailto:coyo at darkdna.net>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>                 ^_^
>>>>>
>>>>>                 I'm sad that it isn't every week, but I suppose
>>>>>                 there's a lot more that at Dallas Makerspace than
>>>>>                 Hump Day Mongering.
>>>>>
>>>>>                 Yeah, people said I was insane for writing that
>>>>>                 script, a Bash shell script IRC bot that used netcat.
>>>>>
>>>>>                 My response was "meow." I can't believe I lost
>>>>>                 that thumbdrive.
>>>>>
>>>>>                 On 10/20/2013 11:30 AM, Tommy Butler wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>                     We hold Perl Mongers on the second Wednesday
>>>>>                     of each month, so we will meet next on
>>>>>                     11/13/13. It generally works out to be
>>>>>                     somewhere around the hump day of each month ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>>                     The IRC bot script that's being discussed
>>>>>                     sounds like lots of fun!
>>>>>
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