blt

[marnanel]

blt is, or was, a command-line application which checked Twitter for you as you were using bash, in the style of "biff".

It is currently broken, because it used the old-fashioned Basic Auth, which was turned off on 16^th August 2010.  It will be recreated to use OAuth at some point in the medium future.

I am very busy finishing a book at present, so it won't be for the next fortnight, at least.

blt is currently written in Perl.  It's quite heavily optimised, so it doesn't run slowly, but I have been toying with the idea of doing it in the same way, but in C, for speed.  Then again, perhaps being in Perl is an advantage in some ways, and keeping it in Perl would mean less rewriting.  Your thoughts on this idea are welcomed.

Comments

[reddragdiva]

How slow is it, in fact? Is making it less maintainable worth bothering? Or do you really want to do it just because you can, which is a perfectly good reason?

[marnanel]

That's a very good question. Mostly just because I can; it's not particularly slow. Do you think C is all that less maintainable than Perl?

[reddragdiva]

I suppose others looking at your code is only a theoretical consideration, but I'd say there are more likely to be terrible programmers willing to fiddle with it in Perl than in C. I could be wrong.

Instead, go deep into the realms of obscurity. What interpreted language might be the silver bullet of choice next year? Use that.

Alternately, rewrite it as a shell script.

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