Archive for the Category: Perl

NSA Suggests Companies Shift To Memory Safe Programming Languages

November 10, 2022 Roger Lacroix

NSA is advising companies to look into switching to memory safe languages such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, or Swift. From the report: https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Article/3215760/nsa-releases-guidance-on-how-to-protect-against-software-memory-safety-issues/ Here is a direct link to the NSA report: https://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/10/2003112742/-1/-1/0/CSI_SOFTWARE_MEMORY_SAFETY.PDF Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Language Wars – Maybe Enough Already

October 10, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Maybe I’m just old and grumpy, but I’m tired of surfing the internet and seeing language wars. I just saw this line “100% Java free!” the other day, listed as a product feature and it makes me shake my head. Of all the product features that would sell a product, you want to include that […]

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Call for Speakers for MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.6

January 28, 2016 Roger Lacroix

We are looking for speakers on any product/service that uses IBM MQ (aka WebSphere MQ & MQSeries) for “MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.6” (MQTC). The sessions are to be technical in nature and on any subject so long as it relates to MQ. We offer speakers the conference fee for free and we also pay for […]

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Perl 6 Released

October 7, 2015 Roger Lacroix

The Perl developers have just released Perl 6. http://perl6.org Perl is a high-level programming language with an eclectic heritage written by Larry Wall and a cast of thousands. It derives from the ubiquitous C programming language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk, the Unix shell, and at least a dozen other tools and […]

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Perl 5.22.0 Released

June 2, 2015 Roger Lacroix

The Perl developers have just released Perl v5.22.0. http://www.perl.org/get.html Perl is a high-level programming language with an eclectic heritage written by Larry Wall and a cast of thousands. It derives from the ubiquitous C programming language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk, the Unix shell, and at least a dozen other tools and […]

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How to Become a Better Developer?

April 27, 2015 Roger Lacroix

I just read a really good article by Cay Horstmann called ‘How to Become a Better Java Developer’ at InformIT: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2343471 All novice developers, regardless of the programming language they are learning, should read the article (I strongly suggest it). It has a lot of really good pointers for novice developers. Cay Horstmann has written […]

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Call for Speakers for MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.5

January 20, 2015 Roger Lacroix

We are looking for speakers on any product/service that uses IBM MQ (aka WebSphere MQ & MQSeries) for “MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.5” (MQTC). The sessions are to be technical in nature and on any subject so long as it relates to MQ. We offer speakers the conference fee for free and we also pay for […]

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Perl 5.16.0 Released

May 22, 2012 Roger Lacroix

The Perl developers have just released Perl v5.16.0. http://www.perl.org/get.html Perl is a high-level programming language with an eclectic heritage written by Larry Wall and a cast of thousands. It derives from the ubiquitous C programming language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk, the Unix shell, and at least a dozen other tools and […]

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