Somehow, I don't mind that the code blew the stack because it was recursion without memoization. Blowing the stack should be a pretty clear sign to figure out why and fix it.

Perl is not an acronym.

Not officially, but there are a couple of retronyms.

Larry Wall originally wanted to call it "Pearl", but found there was already a language by that name, so he shortened it to "Perl".

The name is sometimes expanded as "Practical Extraction and Report Language", or as "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister" (Larry Wall's own phrase, mentioned in the Perl man page).

But yes, "Perl", not "PERL", is the correct name for the language.

(Ada, which was named after a person, has had the same problem, though as far as I know there isn't even a retronym for Ada.)

At least Ada has a song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kFnHPHBcb4

Did you know Ada and Linda were both named after unrelated people with the same last name?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_(coordination_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lovelace

The three virtues of a Perl programmer are impatience, hubris, and laziness.

There's no humility in the list.

For the downvoters: that's a quote from Larry Wall, not an insult.

And there is a talk by him in which he expands upon those words too, in connection with Perl programmers.

I don't have a link, but it may have been in one of his State of the Onion talks.

https://www.google.com/search?q=larry+wall+state+of+the+onio...

> Bureaucracy is a symptom part of the enshittification

Bureaucracy does not cause things to get worse. It's not a bad rash that the system displays when it's about to get worse or the puss discharged when it's irritated.

Bureaucracy is a response to a system that works well. It adds rules and hierarchies and red tape to maintain the system state as it is. It's organizational glue.

Bureaucracy is only a problem when trying to change a system.

Yes. Memorizing how a framework works is not knowledge. Knowledge is the deep understanding thing LLMs can't do.

Extra layers of busywork that nobody else wants to look at.

If your job is polishing a turd, make the turd shine like a cucumber. I have seen countless hours wasted on making Cuke/Gherkin "pretty" instead of accomplishing anything for the business.

I was hoping that AI would lead to a golden age of testing, with devs focusing on making the best tests possible to determine if the AIs writing prod code were correct. Devs leading AI to correct code.

Unfortunately, expecting the AIs to make poop and the devs to wipe their butts only came half-true.

> binary M/F

does not exist for sex or gender.

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/gender-has-a-history-and-...

The article is rank nonsense, citing someone that when called on her bullshit backtracked by calling it an "ironic essay":

https://x.com/Fausto_Sterling/status/1229878759261712385

She is deeply unserious, and should be ignored if you value truth.

> Societal gender norms have existed for probably as long as humans have

Or gender norms have existed since gender was defined in the 70s-80s by feminist scholars. Before that was only sex, which biologists know to be not a binary but a bimodal distribution, itself.

That sound you hear is literally every anthropologist laughing hysterically.

Norms are not defined by scholars or scientists, even if they may define the terms to describe them.

Also the HBO city flyover interstitial:

https://www.reddit.com/r/80s/comments/jy7d73/the_hbo_1983_ci...