On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:56 -0500, Adam Turoff wrote:
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 03:39:04AM -0500, Tom Metro wrote:
For me, popularity matters for two reasons:
1. If you like Perl enough that you'd like it to be all or a big part of
your day job.
If Perl per se matters to you that much,
Hi all,
An unnamed White House source today stated that regexes are
beginning to infiltrate the RHS of substitutions, and thus
threaten our national security.
This was corroborated by the following sighting:
s/Perl/(Bike Riding|Gardening|Cooking|Painting|Teaching|Filmmaking)/;
:-) :-) for the
Tom, thanks for voicing many of the same concerns I've had recently,
especially as I watched this debate evolve. I too have been making a living
for several years working in Perl, and would much prefer to continue doing
so into the future. I've worked in many languages in over 30 years of
Adam Turoff said:
If Perl per se matters to you that much, then you should find some way
to make it your day job. Find a new employer, start your own business,
whatever it takes.
s/Perl/(Bike Riding|Gardening|Cooking|Painting|Teaching|Filmmaking)/; as
appropriate. There is nothing magical
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 10:59 -0500, Adam Turoff wrote:
Discuss advocacy and popularity at the expense of building cool tools
with Perl.
Huh?!? Sorry Adam, but WTF? Who ever said that building cools tools
isn't important. I would certainly agree that it is, and indeed more
important. I'm saying
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:45:28AM -0500, Kripa Sundar wrote:
An unnamed White House source today stated that regexes are
beginning to infiltrate the RHS of substitutions, and thus
threaten our national security.
This was corroborated by the following sighting:
s/Perl/(Bike
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Greg London wrote:
Adam Turoff said:
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:33:20AM -0500, Sean Quinlan wrote:
If Perl per se matters to you that much, then you should find some
way to make it your day job. Find a new employer, start your own
business, whatever it takes.
s/Perl/(Bike Riding|Gardening|Cooking|Painting|Teaching|Filmmaking)/;
Oddly enough, the the syntactically correct code does not quite have the same
meaning or elegance. ...
\begin{nitpick}
The s/// is already syntactically correct. :-)
\end{nitpick}
... Note that I modified the list
I've *never* been hired to do perl coding. I've been hired to write
software to solve problems.
I think that he didn't mean that literally, but more of a general statement of
solving problems specifically using
perl. :-/
Sneaking in perl code is unprofessional. All code you write should be
Adam Turoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If Perl per se matters to you that much, then you should find some way
to make it your day job.
Hmmm...isn't that sort of what were talking about? If there's no job
market for Perl, that's kinda hard to do. Even if you run a business
where Perl is embedded,
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:46:19 -0500 (EST), Greg London
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Devers said:
I think it would be nice if Perl were more popular. I don't think
advocacy is a bad thing. I don't think certification, or courses, are
unreasonable. But of the ways I can think of to make
CPAN bundles:
Aren't CPAN bundles always source distributions? PPM is actually
better than CPAN because it's a pre-built distribution, except that it
only works with Windows (I think) and if a build fails, the last working
build is blown away and the module is unavailable.
RPM alternative:
Surprisingly Active State maintains a Perl distribution for (RedHat)
Linux (or at least they did), and I believe a repository of PPMs as
well.
And also Solaris and IBM AIX. I think the Linux Perl build and PPMs are
likely to run on any reasonably normal Intel Linux, but not sure -- with
the
BR == Bob Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BR As machines get faster and ease of cross-platform installation gets more
BR important, I expect the need for C-level hackery will go down. I
BR suspect this is overused even at present. Several years ago, I wound up
BR rewriting a mini-app
Ben Tilly said:
Greg, I really feel that if anyone is overreacting here, it is
you. I'll try once more, after which I'll stop responding to
you because you don't appear to be listening.
Your message has been along the line of, We just have to
try this and great things will happen. I'm
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 16:15 -0500, Greg London wrote:
Ben Tilly said:
I think responses are more along the lines of, certification
introduces a lot of problems, and we don't see how you'll
make a certification become accepted.
I don't know how it can be done, so it must not be possible.
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 23:52 -0500, Greg London wrote:
Did you ever get a cool idea for a problem
and just dive into it, explore it, learn
about it, try out different things, and play?
Yes. When I do that, I don't post to a public list saying, what if I
just take this line of code, and move it
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