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I'm a DBA by day and a youth pastor by night. I love Perl.
Embedded Qt5 Lisp (EQL5) is a Qt5 binding for Embedded Common Lisp (ECL). EQL5 is a bit different than most bindings. Instead of executing your Lisp source with ecl and importing the bindings, you compile a new interpreter (eql5) that combines both E...
Clojure is a dialect of Lisp that runs on the JVM. JavaFX is a modern GUI toolkit for the JVM. You could use JavaFX directly with Clojure's Java interop, but Cljfx provides a declarative and functional wrapper for JavaFX. Instead of building yet anot...
If you ever troubleshoot a problem on Red Hat (or closely related distros such as Fedora and CentOS), you'll come across dozens of tutorials and articles that tell you to resolve the problem by disabling SELinux. It's not just random blog posts and q...
This is not really a post about Vala--though I do think Vala deserves a closer look. It is about the general philosophy of evaluating programming languages. I also wrote a post that's not really about Perl. There are so many programming languages out...
This tutorial was updated on January 10, 2021 to generate a tone using LambdaNative instead of merely wrapping a Linux-only command-line program called beep that controls the PC speaker. This should now make it possible to follow this tutorial on any...
The title is intentionally provocative. This is not really a post about Perl--though I do think Perl usually is the right tool (at least for me). It is about the general philosophy of picking a language for a project and learning new languages. Chanc...
