Re: code repository

2000-09-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
ring/ Also, don't you want to refer more to 'unit tests', rather than regression testing snip They could be called "Mr. Wosabe tests" for all I care. Terminology was never my strong point (above rant is the rare occasion). :) -- Michael G Schwern http://www.pobox.com/~schwer

RFC - Prototype RFC Implementations - Seperating the men from the boys.

2000-09-10 Thread Michael G Schwern
I've an idea to cut down and weed out the huge number of RFCs we have. Its written out below. =pod =head1 TITLE Prototype implementations for RFCs. =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon Sep 4 21:11:56 EDT 2000 Version:1 Mailing List

Traffic lights and language design

2001-05-04 Thread Michael G Schwern
. A perfect example is Larry's module solution to the Perl 6 vs Perl 5 interpretation (although it still needs a few extra lights here and there to make it really work). Yep, my brain is done with this. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-10 Thread Michael G Schwern
. We're definately providing some sort of Perl 5 translator/adaptor system and we're definately writing it. In fact, it was hotly debated on perl6-language just recently exactly how to do it cleanly. Have I missed something? Have you missed something? -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-10 Thread Michael G Schwern
this somewhere? -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship.

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-10 Thread Michael G Schwern
'testing' branch has been going on for quite some time. FreeBSD comes to mind, among others. FreeBSD is also historically *very* slow about upgrading perl. They were one of the last hold-outs to upgrading /usr/bin/perl from perl4. Please stop. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED

You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!

2001-05-10 Thread Michael G Schwern
, there will be something for programs as well. For further details, see: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00285.html -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One Let me check my notes...

Re: You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!

2001-05-11 Thread Michael G Schwern
On some date someone wrote: : option in (say) perl5.8 which would allow folk to find typeglobs etc, : and adjust code in advance. It should be possible to do most of this externally as a B module. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality

SECOND SYSTEM EFFECT!

2001-05-14 Thread Michael G Schwern
a second system, its the Nth system. The exact value of N doesn't really matter, we're still very much in danger of the second system effect. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One How can I

perlsmall (was Re: Perl, the new generation)

2001-05-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
write up a new man page, perlsmall or something, describing just those useful features of Perl as a small utility language (enhanced shell scripting) and ignoring the useless stuff like OO and threads. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
days when men were men, Perl was small and 640K was enough for anyone. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One ...and I pull out the Magnum from under the desk where I keep it in case

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
can't find at the moment. Maybe it was in TPJ. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One Follow me to certain death! http://www.unamerican.com/

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
helping. Go to [EMAIL PROTECTED], start up a perlsmall man page. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One How can I stoop so low? Years of practise, that's how. It's been hard going but now I

Re: Perl Doesn't Suck

2001-06-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
this topic to death. Point is, Perl's installation isn't any worse than Java and possibly better. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One Schwern Unit: a positive but insignificant quantity

Re: Perl Doesn't Suck

2001-06-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
it easier to do those last two is a good way to go. That an Ingy's NAPC idea. Like I said, we're working on it. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One Only mindless violence can raise my