Some people have an instinctual dislike of things they've been told it's fashionable to hate. I resent that, because all programming languages are interesting in their own ways.
> It sounds like quite the ambitious project that you’ve nearly got working. Cool!
Oh it's already working, it just needs more polish :)
Check https://github.com/csdvrx/hdisk if you're interested
Actually, I'll try to submit it!
> That is not the sort of thing I’d expect someone to write in Perl, and I’m experiencing an odd mix of “that’s amazing!” and “what on earth were you thinking, my friend?!”
I wanted to do it quickly :)
For decoding weird formats that mix little and big ending, I think perl unpack/unpack is the fastest way.
Also, for computing crc32, I didn't have to bother much :)