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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday October 12 2017, @01:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the There’s-more-than-one-way-to-do-it,-but-sometimes-consistency-is-not-a-bad-thing-either dept.

Ruth Holloway at Red Hat's marketing site, OpenSource.com, has a retrospective on three decades of perl covering some history and a few of the top user groups. The powerful and flexible scripting language perl turns 30 at the end of this year. It is a practical extraction and reporting language widely used even today and has a dedicated community. It's ease of use and power made it the go-to tool through the boom of the 90's and 00's when the WWW was growing exponentially. However, its flexible syntax, while often an advantage, also functions as a sort of Rorschach test. One that some programmers fail. Perhaps two of its main strengths are pattern matching and CPAN. The many, mature perl modules available from CPAN make it a first choice for many when needed to draft something quickly or deal with a quick task.


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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday October 12 2017, @01:41AM (7 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Thursday October 12 2017, @01:41AM (#580910) Journal

    You mean you *don't* see the killer bunnies in every picture?

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday October 12 2017, @03:49AM (4 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday October 12 2017, @03:49AM (#580962) Homepage Journal

    The copyright on the test is intended to prevent anyone other than licensed psychologist from seeing it. The test does not work well if the client has so much as looked at it before.

    Even so, my ex found a copy in great condition at a used bookstore in Santa Cruz.

    We thought it would be fun to administer the test to each other. But then I emailed a friend who is a real shrink and she totally freaked. So we didn't score it.

    There is a scoring guide included with the package. Scoring must be complex because I didn't have a clue what any of it meant.

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    • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday October 12 2017, @10:48AM (2 children)

      by Wootery (2341) on Thursday October 12 2017, @10:48AM (#581078)

      then I emailed a friend who is a real shrink and she totally freaked

      What year was this? They can't seriously expect the images to remain secret these days.

      • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday October 12 2017, @07:16PM (1 child)

        by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday October 12 2017, @07:16PM (#581298) Homepage Journal

        The last I read about it, the copyright was due to expire soon.

        I don't know what they've done about it, but I expect that a new test was made, with different blots.

        One could calibrate it by using other tests such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.

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        • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday October 13 2017, @10:13AM

          by Wootery (2341) on Friday October 13 2017, @10:13AM (#581674)

          I expect that a new test was made, with different blots

          Which we can also expect to leak. That sort of thing is unlikely to remain secret in the Internet age.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @05:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @05:10PM (#581220)

      This is the nicest thing anyone can say about the test
      "A 2003 report by Wood and colleagues had more mixed views: "More than 50 years of research have confirmed Lee J. Cronbach's (1970) final verdict: that some Rorschach scores, though falling woefully short of the claims made by proponents, nevertheless possess 'validity greater than chance' (p. 636). [...] Its value as a measure of thought disorder in schizophrenia research is well accepted. It is also used regularly in research on dependency, and, less often, in studies on hostility and anxiety. Furthermore, substantial evidence justifies the use of the Rorschach as a clinical measure of intelligence and thought disorder."

      Shrinks freak out when you get the cards for the same reason scientologists would freak out if you were reading advanced XENU III. Someone told them you'd break the magic.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @12:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @12:43PM (#581105)

    > You mean you *don't* see the killer bunnies in every picture?

    Oo Oo I do I do !

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @05:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @05:24PM (#581227)

    I only see the remains of the Holy Hand Grenades of Antioch. Where are the bunnies?