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I added PostScript support to SilverCity. Now I can show my polyglot code in a new way.
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When I use Perl 5, I do a lot of shelling out to external commands; after all, that's what Perl is good at! So it should come as no surprise that I do the same with Perl 6, which means a lot of the time and effort I spend helping with Perl 6 is improving the interaction with external commands.
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Everyone should be familiar with the concept of brute forcing. In short it is an action of trying every possible combination till succeeding. Most often used in password hacking / hash guessing.
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Overview I was recently working with someone else's C source and I wanted to add some basic error checking without mucking up the code with a bunch of if statements and calls to perror. I ended up implementing a simple must function that checks the return value of an expression, and exits with an error if the return value is less than 0. You use it like this: must(fd = open("textfile.txt", O_RDONLY)); Or:
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