Software necromancy with Perl
- Track: Perl Programming Languages devroom
- Room: K.4.601
- Day: Sunday
- Start: 15:40
- End: 16:20
Making ancient software work again using Perl.
Two case studies of how I’ve recovered old software. First, I recover a late 80s 4GL using Regexp::Grammars
to save software after its run-time died from bitrot. Second, I use Perl to drive OpenGL and glue some games written in Turbo Pascal to SDL.
Speakers
Dave Lambley |