Re: Is there a need for Data::Find::XPath?

2010-12-01 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 1 Dec 2010, at 12:31, Paul Bennett wrote: On the other hand, the docs for Data::Find read like something rather close to what I'd need. Would there be community interest in a module that was API-identical to Data::Find, except that it took XPath-like expressions instead of (or as well

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-12-01 Thread Jason Purdy
To add my five cents, the thing that hurts me the most is that Perl is not an accepted language when it comes to the differnet new platforms. Our work has adopted Drupal as a CMS and it's written in PHP. It would be awesome if it was written in Perl, but as someone else posted in this thread,

Re: Permissions Problem (was: Failed: PAUSE indexer report KTHAKORE/SDL-2.524.tar.gz)

2010-12-01 Thread Kartik Thakore
Thank you, My autocomplete failed on that. I thought I had sent it to modu...@perl.org On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 08:24 -0500, Jonathan Yu wrote: Kartik, As it says in the original mail from the PAUSE indexer, you should be contacting the PAUSE admins about this -- e.g. modu...@perl.org

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-12-01 Thread Lyle
On 01/12/2010 07:37, Bill Ward wrote: I think Perl 6 may be the death of Perl. I think it's Perl's last hope. I think minds and time spent on slow Perl 6 ish things like Moose for Perl 5 will be the death of Perl. It's already at least five years too late to make any real impact as a new

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-12-01 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Lyle wrote: On 01/12/2010 07:37, Bill Ward wrote: I think Perl 6 may be the death of Perl. I think it's Perl's last hope. I think minds and time spent on slow Perl 6 ish things like Moose for Perl 5 will be the death of Perl. This is a ridiculous statement. You seem to

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-12-01 Thread Lyle
On 01/12/2010 16:01, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Lyle wrote: On 01/12/2010 07:37, Bill Ward wrote: I think Perl 6 may be the death of Perl. I think it's Perl's last hope. I think minds and time spent on slow Perl 6 ish things like Moose for Perl 5 will be the death of Perl. If

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-12-01 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 08:03:54PM -0800, Jarrod Overson wrote: The inability for an IDE to help me thoroughly refactor code is the biggest problem for me. Can Padre do that yet? And is there a working binary for OS X that I can just download and run without wasting a day fighting against Wx?

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-12-01 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Lyle webmas...@cosmicperl.com wrote: I wasn't *shitting* as you put it, on other peoples work. At least no more so than Bill's original comment about Perl 6. I expressed my opinion only and should be free to do so. I already asked Bill in my response to refrain

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-12-01 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:21 PM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 08:03:54PM -0800, Jarrod Overson wrote: The inability for an IDE to help me thoroughly refactor code is the biggest problem for me. Can Padre do that yet? In a very limited way. There has

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-12-01 Thread Bill Ward
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Lyle webmas...@cosmicperl.com wrote: I wasn't *shitting* as you put it, on other peoples work. At least no more so than Bill's original comment about Perl 6. I expressed my opinion only

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-12-01 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Bill Ward b...@wards.net wrote: I wasn't shitting on Perl 6. Oh, then sorry for my wording. The technology is fine.  But we (collectively, the Perl community) suck at marketing.  The perception I hear everywhere I go is that Perl is a dead-end language, and

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-12-01 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com I am now trying again to build an .exe for Windows using PAR. If that is successful then we might have a chance to build similar packages for Linux and OS X.. Please dont forget about ActivePerl. :-) Thanks. Octavian

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-12-01 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: Dave Rolsky auta...@urth.org We hear the same argument in reverse that people should work on Perl 5 instead of Perl 6, as if the people who are working on Perl 6 would _of course_ be working on Perl 5 if 6 didn't exist. There's no reason to think this is true, and many reasons to

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-12-01 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Octavian Rasnita wrote: From: Dave Rolsky auta...@urth.org We hear the same argument in reverse that people should work on Perl 5 instead of Perl 6, as if the people who are working on Perl 6 would _of course_ be working on Perl 5 if 6 didn't exist. There's no reason to

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-12-01 Thread Fergal Daly
2010/12/1 Jason Purdy ja...@journalistic.com: To add my five cents, the thing that hurts me the most is that Perl is not an accepted language when it comes to the differnet new platforms. Our work has adopted Drupal as a CMS and it's written in PHP. It would be awesome if it was written in

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-12-01 Thread Ruslan N. Marchenko
2010/12/1 Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Bill Ward b...@wards.net wrote: With my original question I wanted to know what technological and perception related issues people see. We already got some material but I'd be happy to see more comments. Especially from

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-12-01 Thread Dana Hudes
Books of this sort in general are fewer due to the web. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect -Original Message- From: Octavian Rasnita orasn...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 02:14:47 To: Dave Rolskyauta...@urth.org; Lylewebmas...@cosmicperl.com Cc: