Stories by Mark Gardner on Medium

Porting from Perl to Go: Simplifying for Platform Engineering

Mark Gardner — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:04:54 GMT

Rewriting a script for the Homebrew package manager taught me how the Go programming language’s design choices align with platform-ready…

Mark Gardner — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 15:00:00 GMT

Perl’s list-processing prowess isn’t just for arrays. Hashes, or key-value pairs, can be sliced and diced just as easily.

Mark Gardner — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:00:00 GMT

Learn how to avoid deeply-nested conditions in your code with guard clauses using Perl’s statement modifiers.

Mark Gardner — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:00:00 GMT

This week I’m highlighting a few members of the Perl developer family I’ve had the pleasure of virtually meeting over the past year.

Mark Gardner — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 15:00:00 GMT

What’s the difference between Perl’s warnings and the warn function?

Mark Gardner — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 15:00:00 GMT

Assign not when mean to compare you do. Help you warnings and strictures can.

Mark Gardner — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 15:00:00 GMT

In celebration of Perl’s thirty-fourth birthday, here are thirty-four modern Perl features you might not know about.

Mark Gardner — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 15:00:00 GMT

The Perl Log::Log4perl library isn’t vulnerable to the recently-disclosed Java Log4j “Log4Shell” security issue.

Mark Gardner — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:00:00 GMT

Revising last week’s script to use Throwable::SugarFactory instead of Exception::Class

Mark Gardner — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:00:00 GMT

A script that’s also a module that mocks a web service that mocks you back? What sorcery is this?